Vocab

3. lawyer, scholar, statesman, and Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England
5. Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals
7. Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist
8. Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
9. 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
11. using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
13. 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

1. designed and built the first known mechanized printing press in Europe
2. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Age
4. Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic
5. oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci
6. renowned English poet, playwright, and actor
10. the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion
12. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions