The Renaissance

led by Luigi Gonzaga, a city official, and his three sons. Mantua went through a century of turmoil until Ludovico Gonzaga seize ...

to Prince Charles, later King Charles VIII. She moved to the royal court of France but returned to her family when Charles repud ...

Marguerite authored poetry and sto- ries. On the death of her infant son in 1530 she wroteMiroir de l’Ame Pecheresse, which Cath ...

render a contemporary event, was com- pleted by 1425 but since that time has been destroyed. Very few other works of Masaccio’s ...

expanding economy demanded a better ability to calculate sums, percentages, for- eign exchange, and rates of interest. The new d ...

Habsburg control, signed a treaty with King Louis XI of France. On the death of his father Frederick in 1493 he ascended to the ...

cino. These actions made Florence the cen- ter of an emerging new view of the world that placed the genius of human artists and ...

he was careless with money, and his ex- pensive tastes and desire for fine art and spectacle drained the treasuries of both his ...

The discovery of new land in the West- ern Hemisphere and Asia also had an im- portant impact on Renaissance medicine, bringing ...

Elizabeth, however, Henry was severely in- jured in a joust, and soon afterward died. Catherine had Diane banished from the cour ...

her forces were defeated. The son and his mother were reconciled in 1622, with Marie advancing her ally Cardinal Rich- elieu to ...

philosophy, astrology, and mathematics. He became a lecturer in rhetoric and po- etry. He became a professor of Greek at the Uni ...

in trouble with the religious authorities, and in 1544 he was arrested, tried, con- victed, and briefly imprisoned on a charge o ...

The city-states of Italy favored merce- naries as an alternative to levies of the citi- zens. Bankers, industrialists, and merch ...

elangelo studied classical statues to create his first works,Sleeping Cupid, The Ma- donna of the Stairs, andBattle of the Lap- ...

and take up the painting of twelve apostles on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel. The idea for this project was re- la ...

designed the structure but had left it un- finished; it was now left to Michelangelo to design the dome. Late in life Michelange ...

the biblical stories of the creation of the world and the fall of man. Milton’s vivid and powerful imagination was a strong matc ...

and scholarship. Born in the Umbrian hill town of Gubbio, an illegitimate son of Guidantonio da Montefeltro, the Duke of Spoleto ...

afoul of King Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church, Thomas More paid for his stand with his life. His father, Sir John Mo ...