Italian Renaissance Notes Vocab Practice

You are a historian researching about Italian poets and Renaissance writers. You come across a writer who lived between 1265-1321 and his greatest work is The Divine Comedy. He was known for writing in the vernacular. Who is this writer?

• Dante

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Petrarch

During the Renaissance, which city was a major hub for trade and commerce and was heavily influenced by the Medici family?

• Venice

• Florence

• Rome

• Naples

German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a printing press (1400-1468)

• Petrarch

• Dante

• Gutenberg

• Michelangelo

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Humanism

• Renaissance Man

• Petrarch

• Machiavelli

Imagine you are in Florence and you come across a book titled "The Prince". The author of this book believes it's better to be feared than loved. Who is the author?

• Machiavelli

• Gutenberg

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

He was a polymath during the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest painters in the world; also known for his technological ingenuity

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Botticelli

Someone who is well-educated, artistic, inventive; someone who can do almost anything

• Renaissance Man

• Humanism

• Petrarch

• Gutenberg

(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.

• Machiavelli

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Dante

"father of humanism"; poet; invented the Italian sonnet.

• Renaissance Man

• Dante

• Gutenberg

• Petrarch