Renaissance Vocabulary

2. Italian author philosopher and historian; made a political treatise called the Prince
6. German inventor and craftsman who introduced the letterpress printing to Europe
7. denotating attitudes or activities that have no religious or spiritual basis
9. language or dialect spoken by ordinary people in a particular country or region
10. english playwright, poet and actor; known for his Shakespeare plays
13. Also known as Saint Thomas More was an english lawyer, author, social philosopher, judge, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist

1. imagined place or state of which everything is perfect
2. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance
3. Italian polymath of the high renaissance; active painter, engineer, sculptor, scientist theorist, architect and draughtsman
4. Wall painting; plaster is applied to walls wile still wet
5. Period in history and a cultural movement marking the transition from Middle Ages to modernity
8. system of thought applying importance to humans, rather than divine or supernatural matters
11. half length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci; woman in the painting is Lisa del Giocondo
12. Presitgious Italian banking and political dynasty; holding power in Florence form 15th-18th century