Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé et Seigneur de (c. 1540–1614) French chronicler, soldier, and courtier Brantôme was born at ...

Brito, Bernardo de (1568–1617) Portuguese Cistercian monk and historian, born at Almeida His magnum opus on Portuguese history, ...

Brueghel’s paintings of 1562: the Brussels Fall of the Rebel Angels, the Antwerp Dulle Griet, and the Madrid Triumph of Death. H ...

The Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence (1421–44) was hailed as the first Renaissance building, despite being influenced by Tus ...

Bruno, Giordano (1548–1600) Italian philosopher The son of a soldier, Bruno was born at Nola, near Naples, and joined the Domini ...

state affairs. After her downfall, in which Buchanan played a role by identifying her handwriting in the casket letters, incrimi ...

succeeded DELORMEas architect to CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI, for whom he executed work at the Chapelle des Valois and the TUILERIESand ...

had gone to Napier, and Bürgi’s own role remained unrec- ognized until relatively recent times. Burgkmair, Hans (1473–1531) Germ ...

riod are his three MASSsettings and the two-volume Grad- ualia (1605, 1607). He died at Stondon Massey, Essex, where he had spen ...

7799 Cabbala A body of Jewish mystical literature, the name of which derives from the Hebrew kabbalah, with the literal meaning ...

harp. His large output of works for organ and stringed keyboard instruments includes diferencias (sets of varia- tions on secula ...

1500–1800, transl. Elizabeth Wiles-Portier (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1990). Cabot, John (Giovanni Caboto) (1450–1498) Italian na ...

Ca’ da Mosto, Alvise da (c. 1430–1483) Venetian nobleman and traveler Sailing for England in 1454, he put in by chance at Cape S ...

was decided to cancel 10 days: that October 4, 1582 would be followed by October 15, 1582. In addition, only cen- turial years e ...

England the bastard running secretary hand (a mixture of gothic and italic, with many variant forms of letters), was in common u ...

ogy exercised a significant influence on the doctrinal de- velopment of the Anglican Church (in the THIRTY-NINE AR- TICLES). It ...

Camillus of Lellis, St. (1550–1614) Italian priest, founder of the Servants of the Sick (Camillians) Born in Abruzzi, he served ...

they admire COPERNICUSand consider Aristotle to be a pedant. Campanella also wrote an Apologia pro Galileo (1622) and De sensu r ...

which refers to the great ditch that encompasses the an- cient town. The Venetians took control of Crete in 1210 and subsequentl ...

trumpets,” Capponi retorted, “And we shall ring our bells” (i.e. summon the citizens to fight in the streets). The king backed o ...