The Renaissance
erties of various minerals, and the history of Roman art—the only ancient book to treat this particular subject. The collection ...
the fifteenth century. After the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth cen- tury, Portugal became part of the kingdom of ...
pelago and Macao, off the coast of China. At home, however, the royal dynasty ended with the death of King Sebastian in 1578, af ...
printing. Some books were printed in in- stallments, in which a short section of the work was printed each time. Installment pri ...
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Quercia, Jacopo della ....................... Q (1374–1438) Italian sculptor who was born in the town of Quercia Grossa and trai ...
work inspired Michelangelo Buonarroti in his designs for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. The city of Siena asked Quercia to s ...
Rabelais, Francois (ca. 1483–1553) Author and physician whose satiresGar- gantuaandPantagruelhave survived as some of the most c ...
of Europe. Historians know little of his ca- reer as a soldier, however. By 1575 Raleigh was living in London but keeping family ...
tion as one of England’s finest writers. In 1616 he proposed to the king that he un- dertake another voyage to South America in ...
tello. In 1500 Raphael apprenticed to the painter Pietro Vannucci, also known as Pe- rugino, under whom he developed a strik- in ...
SEEALSO: Julius II; Leo X; Leonardo da Vinci; Michelangelo Buonarroti; painting Reformation, Catholic ...................... The ...
the subject of religious doctrine. Philoso- phers and writers disagreed on the nature of the soul, on the ideas of sin and salva ...
ments that inspired them to emulate the architectural styles of antiquity. Pope Nicholas V, whose reign began in 1447, invited s ...
France between Protestants and Catholics. These includeDiscourseontheMiseryof These Times, which satirically criticized the foll ...
he adorned with a picture of the medieval Pope Gregory admiring an icon of the Vir- gin Mary. Having well absorbed Italian hu- m ...
of religious freedom, in 1609, but two years later he was also forced to surrender this kingdom to Matthias. The conflict be- tw ...
dinated the Russian boyars (nobles) to his will. He also established trade links with western Europe. Through this time, Russian ...
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Sack of Rome ................................... S An assault on the city of Rome that oc- curred on May 6, 1527, by the armies ...
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