The Renaissance
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Caboto, Giovanni (John Cabot) (ca. 1450–ca. 1498) Italian explorer known in English as John Cabot, born in either Gaeta or Genoa ...
their writers. The authors were arranged according to their field, such as law, po- etry, history, mathematics, or rhetoric, and ...
of bread and wine, a strictly Catholic be- lief. The Holy Spirit, in Calvinist doctrine, could only be apprehended through the s ...
thepoorgentry.Simaodiedonavoyage to India shortly after the birth of his son, who would be schooled in monasteries and at Coimbr ...
biblical stories and miraculous occurrences in a familiar setting, making a break with the idealized figures and surroundings of ...
nobility. In 1501 the Doge of Venice com- missioned paintings from Carpaccio for the Doge’s Palace, where the painter’sLion of S ...
by English-speaking settlers from Great Britain. SEEALSO: Caboto, Giovanni Castagno, Andrea del ........................ (ca. 14 ...
ture and trained for military service. The courtier, in his view, should act with self- control and the dignified ease that come ...
was weak, and when most people knew little of the world outside their village or feudal domain. Although the Holy Roman Emperors ...
papal authority. Although the Renaissance popes were the most powerful individuals in Europe, with immense treasuries and armies ...
rence. There he completedPerseus Holding the Head of Medusa, a famous sculpture that stood for centuries in the main square of F ...
renowned epic, laying an important foun- dation for modern literature and the novel. Born in Alcala de Henares, a town near Madr ...
his honor, and win the hand of the fair maiden Dulcinea. The novel attracted a wide audience through down-to-earth language, rea ...
pope and foreign kings seeking to extend their influence to wealthy city-states such as Milan and Florence. The emperor allied w ...
barely read, was soon dealing with a rebel- lion of his cousin Louis of Orléans and France’s powerful nobles, who were at- tempt ...
towns, students from far and wide, who formed an often-unruly faction tending to disturbances and disorder. With chaotic, unplan ...
into walled ghettoes, or prohibited from cities altogether. Toward the end of the Renaissance, economic stagnation took hold in ...
gave rise to a much larger audience and widespread knowledge of ancient works. By the sixteenth century nearly all of the curren ...
Clitherow, Margaret .......................... (1556–1586) A Catholic martyr who lived and died in the northern English city of ...
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