The Birth of a Dynasty

Learners work with an online multimedia show to study the life of Leonardo da Vinci in Renaissance Italy. They explore different writing systems and create an advertisement for one of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions.

Acting as journalists on a team to determine the most influential city-state of Renaissance Italy, your young historians will research, discuss, and compare the rise of Venice, Florence, and Genoa, and their influence in shaping a...

Pupils watch a video about the internal power struggles of the Medici family of Renaissance Italy. They compare the Medici family to the Mafia and produce a written response to the film.

Is your class studying the Italian Renaissance? This resource includes 10 short answer and essay questions about the artistic, scientific, political, and philosophical achievements during the Italian Renaissance. The first 3 questions...

Students explore Italian politics and warfare of the Renaissance. They explain the origins and effects of the Protestant Reformation and contrast Renaissance and Medieval attitudes.

Learn about the Renaissance period and its cultural leaders, the Medici family. Take an interactive tour of Florence and use the interactive timeline to understand the course of the Renaissance through the centuries. Uses popups.

This World Heritage website features Ferrara, a focal point for the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Ferrara is known as well as the place where modern town planning began. Found here are a description, a map,...

A description of life in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance, the emergence of humanist thought, and of how the Renaissance got its start in Italy. The Lorenzo de Medici's important role as a patron of the arts in Florence is...

This site from the Rice University contains information about the Medici Family of Florence. Gained their wealth through banking and commerce - wealthiest family in Italy. Discusses family throughout the Italian Renaissance.

This site from ibiblio.com explains the Renaissance, not only as a time period, but as how it changed thought, writing, and art throughout Europe. See links to Renaissance in Italy, Germany and Netherlands.