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| Albrecht Durer | German engraver who made Knight Death and Devil |
| Baldassarre Castiglione | Italian writer who wrote the Book of the Courtier |
| Cervantes (Miguel) | Spanish writer who wrote the first novel Don Quixote |
| City-State | An Italian trading center like Florence or Venice |
| Dante | Italian author who wrote The Divine Comedy about the levels of Hell |
| David | A famous marble statue by Michelangelo |
| Diffusion | the spread of an idea such as Renaissance art techniques |
| Disiderus Erasmus | Dutch philosopher who wrote in Praise of Folly |
| Don Quixote | the first novel written by Cervantes |
| Frescoe | a painting technique that used wet plaster walls |
| Humanism | the belief in individuality and self-expression |
| In Praise of Folly | a book by Erasmus that criticized the Church |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor who was also a scientist and inventor |
| Machiavelli | Italiian scholar who wrote The Prince |
| The Divine Comedy | an Italian book by Dante that describes the levels of Hell |
| The Last Supper | a fresco by DaVinci that tells the story of Jesus night before the Crucifixion |
| The Mona Lisa | a famous portrait by Da Vinci |
| The Prince | a guide for rulers written by Machiavelli |
| The School of Athens | a painting by Rafael that is one of the best examples of Renaissance art |
| Utopia | a book by Thomas More that describes a (fictional) ideal or perfect place |
