The Renaissance
Renaissance means
Rebirth
Most famous painter and sculptor of Renaissance
Michelangelo
Important invention, spread information everywhere
Printing Press
Most powerful family in Italy
Medici
Someone impractical, striving for unreachable ideal
Quixotic
1300s
The beautiful church in Rome
The Sistine Chapel
English Playwright, famous plays like Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Trading
Carved wooden image printed onto surface
Woodcut
Cradle of the Renaissance
Florence, Italy
Called a "Renaissance Man"
Leonardo Da Vinci
Wrote the first Spanish novel, Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Florence's source of wealth
Banking and wool-making
French castle, or large country house
chateau
Someone who studies the humanities
Humanists
The great cathedral of Florence
the Duomo
A nobleman who frequents the king's court
A courtier
The person in charge of the Catholic Church
The pope
Greek painter, lived in Spain
El Greco
Literature from the Greeks and Romans (vocab word)
Classical Literature
Fresco
"Better to be feared than loved" - Source
Machiavelli's The Prince
The person in charge of Venice
Il Doge
Italy