The Renaissance
Texas, the expedition returned to the Mis- sissippi River valley, where de Soto died of a fever in 1542. His body was wrapped in ...
Fontainebleu, del Sartro was invited by Francis I to reside there permanently as court painter. He left in 1518 but soon was fee ...
fonso joined the campaign of Emperor Charles V against Pope Clement VII, and won back the lost duchies in 1530. Ercole d’Este, t ...
Ghiberti, and assisted Ghiberti in creating the famous bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence. Donatello’s first known work i ...
to-do ironmonger. His mother was the daughter of playwright John Heywood and a great niece of Sir Thomas More. Donne was educate ...
Dowland, John ................................ (1563–1626) English composer and lutenist known for the expressively moody, downc ...
flagship, theGolden Hind, made it through the Straits of Magellan and as far as the Pacific Ocean. Searching for a northerly pas ...
Duke Cosimo de’ Medici. She was de- nounced for defying the dress code for courtesans in Siena, and in Florence, but escaped tri ...
Dürer, Albrecht ............................... (1471–1528) A German painter and draftsman, a lead- ing figure of the Renaissanc ...
Dürer returned to Italy in 1505; he vis- ited Venice and Bologna and may have traveled as far as Rome. During this trip he wrote ...
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Edict of Nantes A decree passed by King Henri IV in 1598 that granted full religious liberty to the Huguenots (Protestants) of F ...
ing a method in which students take gradual steps in their lessons, and are also given rigorous physical training to achieve a b ...
ter of King Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn, she was educated at court and showed a talent for languages, learn- ing ...
tains, including Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, carried out raids and pi- racy against Spanish ports and ships. At home ...
Shakespeare’s poetry to music in the Ital- ian style; Thomas Tallis and William Byrd also experimented in musical form and style ...
pacy in northern Italy, Erasmus also wrote (anonymously) Julius Exclusus, in which the pope, greedy for treasure and worldly ren ...
SEEALSO: humanism; Luther, Martin; More, Sir Thomas; Reformation, Protes- tant Eugenius IV .................................... ...
Henry the Navigator, a prince of Por- tugal, began sponsoring voyages of explo- ration after the conquest of Ceuta in North Afri ...
In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set out to reach the Spice Islands by a westerly route. Magellan navigated the straits at the south- ...
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