Geography
The river that flows through Florence.
What is the Arno?
This Italian Renaissance sculptor created the bronze David.
Who was Donato Donatello?
The thesis of Niccolo Machiavelli's book The Prince.
What is the ends justify the means?
The founding figure of Italian renaissance philosophy. The person who arguably began the intellectual Renaissance.
Who was Francesco Petrarcha (Petrarch)?
He painted the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This mountain range extends down the entire Italian peninsula.
What are the Apennines?
This artist painted The Birth of Venus.
Who was Sandro Botticelli?
His patronage supported the Florentine Platonic Academy.
Who was Cosimo de Medici?
The goal of linear perspective in painting.
What is to establish depth and distance?
The industries Florence was most famous for.
What are textiles and banking?
This River flows through Rome.
What is the Tiber River?
The architect who designed and built the Duomo in Florence.
Who was Brunelleschi?
The source of inspiration for Renaissance artists and architects.
What were Greco-Roman ruins?
Manuel Chrysolaras offered this sort of education in Florence in 1397.
What is an education in Greek language and literature?
The two main rivals of the Medici in Florence in the 15th century.
Who were the Albizzi and the Pazzi?
The largest mountain range in Europe.
What are the Alps?
This Italian artist sculpted the marble David.
Who was Michelangelo?
The definition of "nepotism".
This figure saw the rise to dominance of the Medici in 1457.
Who was Cosimo de Medici?
This major event rocked Renaissance Italy in 1494.
What is the French under Charles VIII invaded?
The region of Italy where Florence is located?
What is Tuscany?
The nickname for the artist who painted the Sistine Chapel.
What is "Il Divino" (The Divine One)?
This Florentine monk established a theocracy after the eviction of the Medici.
Who was Savonarola?
This philosophy emphasized the study of classical texts and ideas, and began in the 14th century.
What is "humanism"?
Constantinople fell this year.
What is 1453?