Across
- 4. The support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.
- 5. Having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
- 7. An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
- 9. An Italian merchant, explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
- 10. Of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals.
- 11. Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530)..
- 12. Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
Down
- 1. A point of view.
- 2. A philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
- 3. A German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press.
- 6. French word meaning “rebirth”.
- 8. A network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
