People

Question 1

Italian politician and poet; Wrote The Divine Comedy

Answer 1

Dante Aligheri

Question 2

Dutch priest; Wrote In Praise of Folly

Answer 2

Desiderius Erasmus

Question 3

Wrote Don Quixote, which poked fun at knights from the Middle Ages and the main character thinks windmills are giants

Answer 3

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 4

Ruler of Florence; Build universities; Hired artists and architects to make Florence the most beautiful city in the world

Answer 4

Comismo de’Medici

Question 5

Italian writer; Wrote The Prince; wanted to have an effect on politics

Answer 5

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 6

English poet and playwright; Wrote Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet

Answer 6

William Shakespeare

Question 7

Early Renaissance scholar who wrote about the importance of knowing history; Ideas affected education

Answer 7

Petrarch

Question 8

Italian trader; Traveleds sparked curiosity about Asia

Answer 8

Marco Polo

Question 9

Invented a printing press with moveable type

Answer 9

Johann Gutenberg

Question 10

Artist who was beaten by his uncle and father, because they viewed being an artist as a peasant’s job

Answer 10

Michelangelo