Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A serious infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans
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- Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect
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- An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
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- Florentine sculptor and painter and architect
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- After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
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- English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers
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- A mural done with watercolors on wet plaster (plural)
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- A regular customer
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- A statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government
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- Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century
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- A city in central Italy on the Arno
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- Daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death
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- The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
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- A building where musical dramas are performed
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- A ___ work intended for performance by actors on a stage
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- A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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