Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

bly be attributed to him, many of them of Roman Catholic notables in the circle of Mary I. He was also a painter and designer fo ...

explosives See GUNPOWDER Eyck, Hubert van (died 1426) and Jan van (active c. 1422–1441) Dutch painters Almost nothing is known o ...

Faber, Johann (1478–1541) German theologian Faber was born at Leutkirch near Memmingen and stud- ied at Tübingen and Fribourg. I ...

an elaborate tribute to her; it is also a complicated alle- gory, functioning on both moral and political levels, with each book ...

be as young as seven, but it was more usually between 10 and 16. The matrimonium took place in the house of the girl in the pres ...

of the 16th century through to the end of the 17th. A pan- theistic and antinomian sect, the Familists were perse- cuted by Eliz ...

Farnesina, Villa A villa outside Rome, built for the Sienese banker Agostino CHIGI. A fine example of Renais- sance architecture ...

ality overshadowed his own. In 1521 Ferdinand married Anna of Hungary, and Charles granted him extensive ter- ritories in centra ...

death all the domains of Ferdinand and Isabella passed to their Hapsburg grandson, Charles I of Spain (also Em- peror CHARLES V) ...

ticularly its women singers, and attracted composers, such as LUZZASCHIand GESUALDO. Notable Renaissance build- ings include the ...

mentaries, but his interest in mysticism, first manifested in his work on the Hermetic Pimander (1471), continued to play a majo ...

fur serving as the element of combustibility in matter. While man cannot live, he argued, without earth, water, or air, “it is w ...

Flémalle, Master of See CAMPIN, ROBERT Fletcher, Giles, the Elder (1546–1611) English lawyer, diplomat, and writer Born in Watfo ...

the magnificent Renaissance buildings which have sur- vived there. These include several fine churches (Sta. Croce, the Duomo), ...

Florio, John (c. 1553–1625) English courtier and translator of Italian descent His father was an Italian Protestant refugee and ...

French and Flemish artists, such as Leonard Thiry (died c. 1550), who was strongly influenced by Rosso and Pri- maticcio. In the ...

An English translation by Virginia Cox, entitled The Worth of Women: Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and their Superi ...

court banquets, the aim was to impress with the sheer di- versity of dishes and with an elegant and fanciful presen- tation; cas ...

Forster, Georg (c. 1510–1568) German doctor and musician Born in Amberg, Forster received his earliest musical training at the c ...

Foscari, Francesco (1373–1457) Doge of Venice (1423–57) Foscari was born into a noble Venetian family and held several of the hi ...