Renaissance Role-Play Assignment

Students imagine they are in Florence and adopt several roles: Francesco del Giocondo, Cosimo Medici, Alessandro Medici, Guiliano Medici, a wool merchant, a Portuguese ship builder, Lorenzo Medici, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Galileo, da Vinci, 2 printers, Donatello, Pope Leo X, Machiavelli, and Michelangelo. They interact based on their mutual needs and goals. They have to find people who can help them, write out how, and explain how these interactions show humanism. The other students are economic or cultural historians who must document who is doing what and how it shows humanism.