Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

ciated with the method of construction, in which the ship- builder first sets up the frame of the ship and then attaches the pla ...

Ávila, dedicated to a stricter observance of the rule of the order. In 1568 St. JOHN OF THE CROSSfounded the first community of ...

scribed as MELANCHOLIAand he painted very little during the last five years of his life. Carracci, Lodovico (1555–1619) Italian ...

gious wars, and Casaubon was born in Geneva. He was taught by his father until at age 20 he began intensive Greek studies in Gen ...

1528, the year The Courtier was published, and died in Toledo. Further reading: Robert W. Hanning and David Rosand (eds), Castig ...

spiritual experiences can be gauged from the compilation Vita e dottrina (1551). Catherine of Siena, St. (Caterina Benincasa) (1 ...

exported books and manuscripts. His successor, Wynkyn de Worde, had been his foreman from 1479. Further reading: N. F. Blake, Wi ...

In 1545 Cellini, suspected of embezzling precious metal and gemstones, fled from France back to Florence. There he persuaded Cos ...

MARTYR d’Anghiera caused some consternation to the Spanish authorities with the extent and accuracy of his disclosures about Spa ...

ogy, and the study of literature, her great favorite being PETRARCH. She was widowed within 18 months of being married off when ...

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936; repr. 1970); E. M. W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture (London: Chatto & Windu ...

have attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities without taking a degree. His earliest published poems, The Shadow of Night ...

Brittany, eventually secured Brittany for the French royal domain. This marriage infuriated Anne’s erstwhile fiancé, MAXIMILIAN ...

However, it was in his role of “Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled” (Spenser, THE FAERIE QUEENEIV ii 32) that he most influe ...

most distinguished of the many artists who enjoyed his patronage. He was also a patron of scholarship and litera- ture, under wh ...

ists. It was Petrarch and a little later Poggio BRACCIOLINI who were responsible for discovering and preserving al- most half th ...

landscape; later works include paintings of the Madonna, the Incredulity of St. Thomas (1504; National Gallery, Lon- don), and a ...

cred works. He also wrote many chansons, and his Mass settings are, with one exception, parody settings on chan- sons and motets ...

Press, 1996); David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belkn ...

with its famous double staircase, and the Palazzo Corner- Spinelli (c. 1490) and Palazzo Vendramin-Calerghi (1501–09), both Lomb ...