Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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Encyclopedia of THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION REVISED EDITION ...

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Encyclopedia of The Renaissance and the Reformation revised edition Thomas G. Bergin, Consulting Editor (first edition) Jennifer ...

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation, Revised Edition Copyright © 2004, 1987 Market House Books Ltd All rights re ...

General Editor Jennifer Speake, MA, MPhil Consulting Editor(first edition) Thomas G. Bergin, PhD, LHD, LittD, OBE (1904–1987) Co ...

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CONTENTS Preface to this edition ix Introduction to the first edition x Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation 1 Ch ...

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The second edition of this encyclopedia, under its new title of Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation, aims to cap ...

The Renaissance, a vast cultural movement spanning some three centuries of European history, is so rich, so many-faceted, and so ...

Aachen, Hans von (1552–1615) German painter Despite his name, von Aachen was born at Cologne. Like Bartholomäus SPRANGER, whom h ...

those that have are mainly graceful landscapes with pagan themes. Abbot, George (1562–1633) English divine Born at Guildford, th ...

and enhanced the status of artists vis-à-vis the other Flo- rentine guilds. Accademia della Crusca The preeminent linguistic aca ...

Adriano Fiorentino (Adriano di Giovanni de’ Maestri) (c. 1450/60–1499) Italian sculptor and medalist Born in Florence, he was fi ...

at Basle. Agricola also wrote from practical experience on weights and measures (De mesuribus et ponderibus, 1533), subterranean ...

consisting mainly of writing horoscopes. In 1530 Agrippa published his major work, De vanitate et incertitudine sci- entiarum et ...

Paris (1512) and Strasbourg (1541); the first Italian trans- lation appeared in Venice in 1546, and French (1553) and Spanish (1 ...

since the Second Treaty of Thorn (1466). In 1522 he vis- ited Nuremberg where he met the religious reformer An- dreas OSIANDER u ...

notably the Rosicrucians, interpreted the quest in spiritual as well as alchemical terms (see ROSICRUCIANISM). The terminology o ...