Italian banker and leader of Florence, he wanted to make Florence the greatest city in the world. His actions helped bring about the Renaissance.

Italian Renaissance poet, he wrote The Divine Comedy in the Italian language.

Italian writer and politician, he wrote The Prince in which he advised leaders on how to rule.

Italian Renaissance artist, he designed buildings, wrote poetry and created sculptures and paintings.

Genius of the Renaissance, he was a painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, town planner, and mapmaker.

Early Italian Renaissance scholar, he wrote about the importance of knowing history.

Spanish writer, he wrote Don Quixote.

a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone else's money.

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

to change or influence

referring to the cultures of ancient Greece or Rome

a period of "rebirth" and creativity that followed Europe's Middle Ages.

Began in the late 1300s; the study of history, literature, public speaking, and art that led Europeans to believe that humans could be proactive in their own lives

the combination of humanist and religious ideas, developed in Northern Europe

English Renaissance writer and playwright, he is considered by many to be the greatest English writer of all time.

German Renaissance artist, he is famous for his prints and woodcuts.

Dutch priest, he published In Praise of Folly in which he criticized corrupt clergy. His criticisms helped inspire the Protestant Reformation.

German printer, he developed a printing press that used movable type.