Ren/Ref RESOURCE

English poet and playwright who is most famous for writing the love story Romeo and Juliet.

• William Shakespeare

• Charles Dickens

• Jane Austen

• Mark Twain

This person gave advice to princes on how to rule in the book The Prince. He quoted, “It is better to be feared, than loved”.

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inventor of movable type/Printing press.

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

Wrote The Praise of Folly, which criticized the practices of the Catholic Church, specifically the wealth of the Popes because he wanted to reform the church.

• Desiderius Erasmus

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Thomas More

The Renaissance began in what four city-states of Northern Italy?

• Florence, Milan, Genoa, Venice

• Rome, Naples, Turin, Bologna

• Pisa, Siena, Parma, Verona

• Bari, Palermo, Cagliari, Trieste

Renaissance artist who also sculpted David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Donatello

Considered the perfect Renaissance man because he was a painter, sculptor, inventor etc. He is famous for painting the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Donatello

This artist developed the rules that help artists show 3D depth and distance and figured out how to build the dome of the Florence Cathedral.

• Filippo Brunelleschi

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

What does the word Renaissance mean?

• Rebirth

• Destruction

• Stagnation

• Decline

What does the word secular mean?

• Religious

• Non-religious

• Traditional

• Spiritual