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A
Academies, 19–20, 54, 76, 112, 126,
160, 317
Academy of Design, 54, 317
Academy of Geneva, 63
Academy of Plato, 19, 205–206,
258
Act in Restraint of Appeals, 95
Act of Succession, 219
Act of Supremacy, 95, 158
Act of Union, 284
Adages(Erasmus), 115
Adoration of the Magi(Leonardo
da Vinci), 187
The Aeneid(Virgil), 26, 77, 234,
283, 294, 299, 322–323
Aetia(Callimachus), 62
Afonso V (king, Portugal), 35
Agincourt, Battle of, 313
Agnadello, Battle of, 147, 176
Agricola, Rudolf, 20
Alberti, Leon Battista, 20–21, 41,
144, 198, 247, 273, 324
Alberti, Lorenzo, 20, 27
Alchemy, 21–22
Alexander V (pope), 146, 162
Alexander VI (pope), 22–24, 45–
47, 176, 241, 281, 286
Alexander of Macedon, 30
Alfonsine Tables, 33
Alfonso II of Aragon, 123, 124
Alfonso V of Aragon (the
Magnanimous), 24, 47, 123, 225
Alhambra palace, 145
Alighieri, Dante, 24–26, 40, 43, 49,
189, 323
The Almagest(Ptolemy), 33, 204
Almagro, Diego, de, 256–257
Almanacs, 32, 230, 231
Ameto(Boccaccio), 43
Ammannati, Bartolomeo, 40
Anatomy, 208, 238
Andrew of Anjou (king, Hungary),
173
Angevin dynasty, 75, 123, 225
Anguissola, Sofonisba, 26
Anjou dynasty, 24, 160, 173
Anne of Brittany, 26–27, 75
Anne of Cleves, 95, 158
The Annunciation(Fra Angelico),
131
Antipopes, 78, 92, 93, 117, 229
Apollonius of Rhodes, 62
Arabs.SeeMuslims
Aragon, 24, 35, 123, 145, 222
Archidoxis(Paracelsus), 242
Architecture, 15, 16, 21, 27–29, 36,
56, 261
classical, 41, 70, 175
See also individual architects
and buildings
Arena Chapel, 143
Ariosto, Ludovico, 29–30, 101, 107,
125, 144, 223
Aristotle, 14, 30–31, 258, 294
astronomical theories, 87, 137,
138
Art, 12–17, 70
Baroque, 16, 64–65, 89, 140,
199, 239, 269, 306
classical, 41, 223
humanism in, 21, 47, 109, 142,
238
See alsoClassicism; Painting;
and individual artists and
works
The Art of Love(Ovid), 235
Ascham, Roger, 31, 113, 114
Assumption of the Virgin(Titian),
304
Astrology, 32–33, 34, 126, 230–231
Astronomy, 14, 16, 33–34, 154, 242
See alsoAristotle; Brahe, Tycho;
Copernicus, Nicolaus; Galilei,
Galileo; Kepler, Johannes;
Ptolemy; Telescopes
Atlas(Mercator), 233
De Augmentis Scientiarum(Bacon),
38
Augsburg Confession, 102, 211
Aurispa, Giovanni, 34, 78, 125
Austria, 34–35, 91, 153, 154, 161,
271
Auto-da-fé (act of faith), 166, 307
Averroes, 30
Aviz, House of, 35–36, 156
Aztec empire, 90B
Babylonian Captivity.SeeGreat
Schism
Bacchus(Caravaggio), 65
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 220, 239
Bacon, Francis, 37–38, 115, 309
Balassi, Balint, 161
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de.See
Núñez de Balboa, Vasco
Banking, 14, 135, 190, 245Florentine, 126, 127, 238, 280,
295, 308
international, 212, 307
Medici family, 203–204, 205,
206, 308
Baptism of Christ(Verrocchio/
Leonardo da Vinci), 187, 320
Baptistery of Florence, 56, 103,
127, 247, 265, 285, 311
Barocci, Federico, 38–39
Baroque period
art, 16, 64–65, 89, 140, 199,
239, 269, 306
music, 58, 218
Barres, Joao de, 261
Bartolommeo, Fra, 39–40, 100, 270
Basel Compact, 44
Basilica architecture, 28
Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore,
56, 57
Basilica of Santo Spirito, 56–57
Battiferra degli Ammannati, Laura,
40
The Battle of San Romano
(Uccello), 247
Belgium, 228
Bellini, Gentile, 40, 41, 65–66, 142,
304
Bellini, Giovanni, 41, 108, 109, 125
Bellini, Jacopo, 41–42
Bellini family, 198, 319
Benedict XIII (pope), 92
Bentivoglio, Giovanni II, 42, 176
Bernini, Pietro, 226
Bible
Gutenberg, 151
King James version, 116, 171
translations of, 69, 297
Biologists, 16
See alsoMedicine; Science
Biondi, Flavio, 57
The Birth of Venus(Botticelli), 49
Black Death, 43, 126, 249, 257, 313
Blood, circulation of, 208
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 26, 42–44,
128, 189, 222
Decameron,12, 43, 202, 257
Bohemia, 44–45, 162, 271, 302–303
Habsburg rule, 35, 153, 154,
161, 205, 275–276
Boleyn, Anne, 45, 113, 158, 219,
308, 309
Bologna (Italy), 32, 42, 168
Bologna, Giovanni, 285
Bonacolsi family, 199