Renaissance Vocab Quiz

this city is built on a lagoon and is made up of over 100 islands where people first moved to find safety from raids after the fall of Rome. Merchants made a fortune and boosted this place's standing by supplying and transporting soldiers for the Crusades; located in the north of Italy on the Adriatic coast

• Venice

• Milan

• Naples

• Florence

Had 4 principal industries: cloth, arms, metallurgy (tools, utensils, needles) and leather. Prosperity spurred civic pride and energy and resulted in an upswelling of artisitc creativity, public building and further entrepreneurial endeavor. This is an inland city.

• Venice

• Milan

• Naples

• Florence

Earthquakes and the black death in the 1300s made sure that this place limped along toward the Renaissance. Located in the southern part of Italy on the west coast.

• Venice

• Milan

• Naples

• Florence

Came under the rule of the Medici family in the 1400s; a city in the Tuscany region of northern Italy.

• Venice

• Milan

• Naples

• Florence

An Italian author who wrote the book The Courtier in 1528. He described the ideal Renaissance man and woman.

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Giovbanni Boccaccio

• Machiavelli

Wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew. Also wrote Macbeth, Othello and King Lear.

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Giovbanni Boccaccio

• Machiavelli

His book presents both tragic and comic views of life. In its stories, the author uses cutting humor to illustrate the human condition. He presents his characters in all their individuality and folly.

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Giovbanni Boccaccio

• Machiavelli

His work described how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that "the end justifies the means." Wrote "The Prince"

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Giovbanni Boccaccio

• Machiavelli

trained with her painter father; painted pictures of strong heroic women

• Isabella D'Este

• Vittoria Colonna

• Sofonisba Anguissola

• Artemisia Gentileschi

Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which took him four years to paint. The ceiling shows sweeping scenes from the Old Testament.

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Brunelleschi