Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

la oración and the Guía were put on the INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM. Luna, Álvaro de (c. 1390–1453) Spanish statesman and poet A ...

1520), leaving the pope no alternative but to pronounce his excommunication (January 1521). Luther’s fate now depended to a larg ...

After Luther’s death (1546) his movement was increas- ingly rent by internal divisions, resulting in the virtual ex- clusion of ...

Mabuse See GOSSAERT, JAN Machaut, Guillaume de (c. 1300–c. 1377) French composer and poet Probably born in Reims, Machaut entere ...

A more recent English edition is Allan H. Gilbert’s three- volume Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others (Durham, N.C., 1965). ...

Castile; 1486). Madrigal was a proverbially voluminous writer in Spanish and Latin (escribir más que el Tostado— “to write more ...

10 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 26. In this manner a verse of the Bible containing exactly 26 syllables would be taken by the Re- naissance mag ...

the work of VALTURIOin particular. Under his instruction ALBERTIreplanned San Francesco in Rimini as a monu- ment for the Malate ...

Mannerism A style in the arts originating in Italy during the 16th century. Deriving its name from the Italian word maniera (man ...

Chief of these early works was the fresco decoration for the Ovetari chapel (1448–55), in which Mantegna demon- strated his orig ...

addition to a growing percentage of printed volumes, a wealthy bibliophile’s library usually contained a number of manuscripts, ...

(New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995); Martin Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholar- ship in Renaissance ...

she was brought up in the Netherlands by her great-aunt MARGARET OF AUSTRIAand aunt MARY OF HUNGARY, who were successively regen ...

Further reading: Clare Harraway, Re-Citing Marlowe: Approaches to the Drama (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000); Charles Nicholl, T ...

Martyr, Peter See PETER MARTYR(Pietro Martire Ver- migli) Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) Queen of Scotland (1542–67), Queen co ...

artists in the naturalist school, despite the fact that Masac- cio’s work there was probably unfinished at the time of his death ...

styles in combination with new techniques of free compo- sition, and the basing of a Mass composition on a freely in- vented sub ...

Matthias had sufficiently established his position against his foreign and domestic enemies for his coronation to take place. In ...

son, Philip the Handsome (1476–1506), to the Infanta Joanna, thus ensuring the Spanish inheritance for his grandson, CHARLES V. ...

Lorenzo supported artists and scholars such as POLIT- IAN, PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, BOTTICELLI, and VERROCCHIO. Despite SAVONAROLA’ ...