Across
- 4. German monk who started the Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to a church door
- 7. English philosopher who helped develop the scientific method and urged scientists to experiment
- 8. Scientist who used math to prove planets traveled around the sun
- 9. Powerful and wealthy banking family that ruled Florence and sponsored many artists
- 12. Famous Italian sculptor and painter who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- 14. Italian astronomer who used a telescope to prove the heliocentric theory and was put on trial
- 15. French philosopher who said I think, therefore I am and relied on logic
- 16. German inventor of the printing press
- 18. Architect who designed the massive dome of the Florence Cathedral
- 19. English writer who coined the term Utopia in his book about a perfect society
- 20. Protestant reformer who taught the concept of predestination
Down
- 1. Italian writer who wrote The Prince, advising rulers how to keep power
- 2. The ultimate Renaissance man who painted the Mona Lisa and kept notebooks of inventions
- 3. Famous English playwright and poet who wrote Romeo and Juliet
- 5. Astronomer who first proposed the sun-centered theory of the universe
- 6. Dutch humanist and priest who criticized the corruption of the Church through satire
- 10. Last name of the Italian poet Dante, who wrote The Divine Comedy
- 11. French humanist author who critiqued the church with stories about giants
- 13. English King who broke away from the Catholic Church to get an annulment
- 17. English scientist who discovered the law of gravity