The Renaissance

4. A person who gives support and money to artists, orginazation, and other things.
5. Having or relating to the sun as a center.
7. An Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, poet, and architect who had a large influence on the development of Western art.
9. A Venetian merchant who traveled from Europe and Asia in 1271-95.
10. Something original that has been respected for a long time.
11. An Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and later Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737.
12. Relating to the physical world and not the spiritual world.

1. A way of thinking about and understanding something.
2. A system of education and a method of inquiry that originated in Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries.
3. The first complete book extant in the West and is one of the earliest printed from movable type.
6. The period of European history between the 14th and 17th centuries when there was new interest in science and in ancient art and literature, especially in Italy.
8. Ancient trade route from China to the Mediterranean Sea.