Renaissance Matching Quiz

Who invented the printing press?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johan Gutenberg

• Dante Alighieri

• William Shakespeare

"Renaissance Man" who painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johan Gutenberg

• Dante Alighieri

• Francesco Petrarch

Who is the author of The Divine Comedy?

• Dante Alighieri

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Homer

• Virgil

He is known as the "Father of Humanism"

• Johan Gutenberg

• Francesco Petrarch

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Dante Alighieri

• Raphael

English playwright who wrote "Romeo and Juliet".

• William Shakespeare

• Dante Alighieri

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Francesco Petrarch

• Johan Gutenberg

Italian author who wrote the "Decameron" about young people waiting out the plague in Italy

• Johan Gutenberg

• Boccaccio

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Francesco Petrarch

• Dante Alighieri

English Catholic man who wrote "Utopia" about a perfect society without private property

• Dante Alighieri

• Johan Gutenberg

• Francesco Petrarch

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Thomas More

He painted the Sistine Chapel

• Francesco Petrarch

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johan Gutenberg

• Dante Alighieri

He invented the printing press in Europe that allowed for the rapid spread of new information.

• Dante Alighieri

• Francesco Petrarch

• Raphael

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Johan Gutenberg

Banking family in Florence, Italy who had political power and sponsored the arts

• The Medici

• Machiavelli

• Humanism

• Donatello

• Florence, Italy