Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Spires, Diets of (1526, 1529) Assemblies (Reichstage) of the Holy Roman Empire at Spires (Speyer) in southern Germany. At the 15 ...

sonnets, inspired by her love for Collaltino di Collalto, Count of Treviso, whom she met in 1549 and who even- tually deserted h ...

attained the position of court antiquary and was instru- mental in obtaining for the emperors all manner of antiq- uities, books ...

Strozzi, Ercole (c. 1473–1508) Italian poet Ercole was from the branch of the Strozzi family that had established itself in Ferr ...

most of his remaining years to writing his memoirs, the Économies royales d’état, domestiques, politiques et militaires (1638). ...

Sustris, Lambert (Alberto da Olanda) (c. 1515/20–c. 1584) Netherlands painter Sustris was born in Amsterdam but nothing is known ...

Tacitus, Cornelius (c. 55–c. 117) Roman historian and provincial governor His Histories cover the reigns of the Roman emperors f ...

compositions, Gaude gloriosa Dei mater for six voices. On the abolition of the Sarum rite in 1559, Tallis’s Latin set- tings wer ...

the French in 1512. Largely self-educated, Tartaglia began his mathematical career giving private tuition in Verona. He soon, ho ...

Denmark he was imprisoned for spreading heretical ideas, but, undeterred, he soon afterwards established the first Danish Luther ...

water. Significant improvements came only with the de- velopment of the steam engine and better road-building methods long after ...

Telesio believed that sense is the only basis for specu- lation about nature. His importance lies in his use of Aris- totelian c ...

Further reading: Cathleen Medwick, Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul (New York: Knopf, 1999); Carole Slade, St. Teresa of ...

a similar evolution from the performances of wandering players given in the yards of inns. Although the acting companies also us ...

Tibaldi, Pellegrino (1527–1596) Italian painter, sculptor, and architect He was born at Puria di Valsolda, near Milan, and follo ...

Thames & Hudson, 1969); Carlo Ridolfi, The Life of Tin- toretto and of His Children Domenico and Marietta (Philadelphia, Pa: ...

with his grandsons (1546; Museo Nazionale, Naples); the group poignantly captures the tension between the frail elderly pope, th ...

bunals, with one supreme appellate council directed by himself. The Ordinances he issued (1484) regulated in- quisitorial proced ...

it led to the Incarnation and the redemption of mankind by Christ. Such conceptions continued into the Renais- sance and are fou ...

Another question frequently raised by translators was that of fidelity to the words of the original versus fidelity to the spiri ...