Renaissance Vocabulary

The resulting combination of humanist and religious ideas.

• Christian Humanism

• Classical

• Interest

• Perspective

Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.

• Christian Humanism

• Classical

• Interest

• Perspective

A fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else’s money.

• Christian Humanism

• Classical

• Interest

• Perspective

A method of showing a three dimensional scene on a flat surface so that it looks real.

• Christian Humanism

• Classical

• Interest

• Perspective

Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence.

• Cosimo de' Medici

• Dante Alighieri

• Johann Gutenberg

• Marco Polo

Italian poet, writer, literary theorist, philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem The Divine Comedy.

• Cosimo de' Medici

• Dante Alighieri

• Johann Gutenberg

• Marco Polo

German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press.

• Cosimo de' Medici

• Dante Alighieri

• Johann Gutenberg

• Marco Polo

Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road.

• Cosimo de' Medici

• Dante Alighieri

• Johann Gutenberg

• Marco Polo

Stresses the importance of human values and dignity. It proposes that people can resolve problems through the use of science and reason.

• Humanism

• Independent State

• Merchant

• Patron

Free state from outside control.

• Humanism

• Independent State

• Merchant

• Patron