Across
- 4. using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language.
- 6. the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion
- 11. Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic
- 12. a philosophy of life that considers the welfare of humankind – rather than the welfare of a supposed God or gods – to be of paramount importance
- 13. designed and built the first known mechanized printing press in Europe
- 14. artist and engineer
Down
- 1. Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
- 2. English humanist and statesman, chancellor of England (1529–32), who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- 3. a mural painting technique that involves painting with water-based paint directly onto wet plaster so that the paint becomes an integral part of the plaster.
- 5. a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries
- 7. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions
- 8. oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci
- 9. 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).
- 10. renowned English poet, playwright, and actor