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- 3. a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press.
- 5. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
- 6. polo was a Venetian merchant, most well-known for his book The Travels
- 9. Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737
- 11. the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
- 12. relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.
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- 1. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
- 2. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
- 4. ancient trade route, linking China with the West
- 7. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
- 8. was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
- 10. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.