The Renaissance

construct and redecorate the building with two major works,Venice Ruling with Jus- tice and PeaceandTriumph of Venice.For the ar ...

and Piero de’ Medici that were placed in the sacristy of the church of San Lorenzo. For the Villa Medici at Careggi, Verrocchio ...

as thecoquillards, who were a common threat on the chaotic byways of France in the years after the Hundred Years’ War. He was gr ...

in search of a new home for his defeated companions. Virgil based the twelve books of his epic on theIliadand theOdysseyof Homer ...

rule was so violent and corrupt that he was assassinated in 1412. The last Visconti duke, Filippo Maria Visconti, died in 1447, ...

William I of Orange (1533–1584) A Dutch noble who founded the dynasty of Orange-Nassau and led the revolt in the Netherlands aga ...

church authority. The pope commissioned two German monks, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, to prepare a report on witchcraft. ...

France in 1513 and in the next year ar- ranged a truce between England and France. He was appointed bishop of Lin- coln in 1514, ...

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Xavier, Francis ................................ X (1506–1552) Missionary who converted thousands to Christianity in India, the ...

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Zwingli, Huldrych ........................... Z (1484–1531) Swiss church reformer, a contemporary of Martin Luther who establish ...

was quartered and burned on a manure pile by his enemies, who were determined that no relics of him would remain to in- spire ve ...

Chronology ..................................... The following are representative of the many significant events of the Renaissa ...

his famous Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, signal- ing the beginning the Protestant Reforma- ...

1642 The English Civil War begins. 1657 The Habsburg dynasty effectively ends with the signing of the Peace of West- phalia, whi ...

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For Further Research ....................... Jacob Burckhardt,The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York: Barnes &am ...

Paul Johnson,The Renaissance: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2000. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann,The Mastery of Nature: As ...

Valla. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer- sity Press, 1968. Jeffrey Chipps Smith,The Northern Re- naissance. London: Phaidon, 2004 ...