The Renaissance

tury, came to be known as the Basilica Pal- ladiana. Palladio wrote a guidebook to the antiquities of Rome, illustrated a Renais ...

the Council of Trent, which set down new doctrine to be enforced by the members of the church. Making alliances with Catholic ru ...

what is now Switzerland and spent several years wandering to the far corners of the known world to learn from philosophers, scie ...

After his five marriages had ended in divorces or executions, Henry was growing stout, sickly, and extremely paranoid and fearfu ...

Protestant and Catholic branches of the Christian faith, with the eventual goal of bringing Protestants back under papal au- tho ...

still had unfinished business in the matter of reform and the reconciliation of Catho- lics and Protestants. When the Habsburg e ...

spiring widespread support of Medici rule in Florence. SEEALSO: Medici, Lorenzo de’ Peasants War ............................... ...

paintings, while medieval artists had de- picted scenes and figures on a flat plane, with no attempt to create an illusion of de ...

elangelo to carry out his design. In 1486, after the Sistine Chapel com- mission ended, Perugino moved to Flo- rence, where he c ...

of sonnets andcanzoni(songs) in a vol- ume entitledCanzoniere, a collection that would grow to nearly four hundred poems in a va ...

colonies in the Americas. Charles named Philip his regent in Spain in 1543, when he also arranged his son’s marriage to Maria of ...

British Isles but was defeated by storms and by the skilled English captains who had the advantage of lighter and more ma- neuve ...

near Paris. Eventually he was released He received the protection of Lorenzo de’ Medici, who settled him in an estate near the v ...

Cosimo specialized in painting scenes from classical mythology, such as The Death of Procris. His vivid imagination in- spired t ...

the Bahamas, Tortuga, Jamaica, and later Panama. Under Henry Morgan, pirate bands captured the major cities of Spanish-held Pana ...

George and the Princess of Trebizond; in the ducal palace of Mantua he paintedScenes of War and Chivalry. These are the only fre ...

phrase “pius Aeneas” in the poetry of Vir- gil. After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, he was determined to face down the thr ...

journeys of exploration in 1524 and 1526. He returned to Spain in 1528 and won the commission of Emperor Charles V to found a ne ...

ing the history and nature of contagious disease, a first step toward the modern un- derstanding of disease and its causes. Plag ...

were also well respected, and in the fif- teenth century Platonism was revived in the scholarly investigations of Marsilio Fi- c ...