The Renaissance

1. having to do with a town or city
5. The birthplace of the Renaissance
6. One of the leading Renaissance artists who is born in Florence and drew the Mona Lisa.
9. A German printer who developed the printing press that used movable metal type
11. An English writer who wrote The Canterbury
12. The art of making agreements with other countries
13. A diplomat in Florence that wrote the book The Prince in 1513
15. The renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and Roman arts.
16. The first major center of the Renaissance
17. The belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is a path to knowledge
18. A soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country
20. The family that ruled the Italian city-state of Mantua during the 1400's
21. A way of drawing to show the relationship of objects in a drawing to give the look of depth or distance

2. The limits between which something can change or differ
3. A sculptor in Florence who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
4. A poet from Florence who wrote The Divine Comedy
7. a technique using light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects.
8. Another leading Renaissance city, located on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea
10. Meaning to relate to worldly things.
14. The home of the pope in Rome as well as where the largest library was
19. An event that brought Italian merchants into contact with Arab merchants in the Middle East