Renaissance Crossword

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

2. A serious infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans (6)
6. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect (8)
7. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines (5)
9. Florentine sculptor and painter and architect (12)
10. After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body (7)
12. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (11)
14. A mural done with watercolors on wet plaster (plural) (8)
16. A regular customer (6)

1. A statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (11)
3. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century (6)
4. A city in central Italy on the Arno (8)
5. Daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death (9)
8. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world (11)
11. A building where musical dramas are performed (5)
13. A ___ work intended for performance by actors on a stage (5)
15. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme (6)