A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. From roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century followed by this movement spreading into Northern Europe during 1400-1600

a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity

This city was once of hot spots of Renaissance culture in the 1400s

Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492)

(1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization.

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

An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civic affairs and public education.

supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe

Rich Florence family that funded artists and artisans

order and pay for an work of art

Rome's greatest public speaker; he argued against dictators and called for a representative government with limited powers

unable to read or write

a place where many writings of the Roman Empire were preserved

(1452-1516) Spanish monarch who, along with his wife Queen Isabella of Castille, funded Christopher Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, which led to the discovery of the West Indies.

develop, rise from, become known

Understand; find meaning

The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons.

Branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and their culture: philosophy, literature, and the fine arts, as distinguished from the sciences