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" Trojan legends were never held in higher honour than at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. "
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented ... - Page 193
by Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 483 pages
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A Manual of the History of Philosophy

Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann - First philosophy - 1832 - 526 pages
...commentaries on the works of Aristotle (especially his physical treatises), were published at Venice, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. His Comment, on the Manual of Epict. has been given by SCUWEIOH. Monum. Epict. Phil. torn. IV. v Cic....
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Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning ..., Volume 5

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 358 pages
...enumerating those great features in the history of the progress of the human mind, which exhibited themselves at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, we remarked the high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe, in the age of Leo X. There...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 161-162

Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...The third volume in our list is a collection of French poems, written by an Italian, Alione of Asti, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, published from the only complete copy of his poems, which was formerly in the library of our countryman...
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A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages (etc.)

John Britton - Archaeology - 1838 - 456 pages
...Three-centered and Four-centered Pointed Arches and Three-centered Elliptical Arches were much used at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and are often called mixed arches. (See pi. 1. figs. 14, 15, 16, 20.) 16. The Drop Arch is formed by...
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Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning ..., Volume 5

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1839 - 354 pages
...enumerating those great features in the history of the progress of the human mind, which exhibited themselves at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, we remarked the high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe, in the age of Leo X. There...
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Lectures delivered at literary and mechanics' institutions. Sequel

William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...improved the poetical language of his country. William Dunbar, who resided at the court of James IV., (at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries) composed poems of an allegorical, moral, and comic description, and thus considerably extended the...
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Transactions. Transactions

Royal society of arts - 1847 - 634 pages
...There are many printed books, still in good preservation, that were bound in calf with oaken boards, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries; these are mostly stamped with gold and blind-tools, which are well worth our attention. Let me here...
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A new general biographical dictionary, projected and partly ..., Volume 3

New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 530 pages
...BAIARDI, or BAIARDO, the name of two old Italian writers. 1. Andrea, a poet of Parma, who flourished at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and enjoyed the favour of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. He was rich, possessing the castle of Albari,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Scott, ' unrivalled by any that Scotland has ever produced,' flourished at the court of James IV., His works, with the exception of one or two pieces, were confined, for above two centuries, to an obscure...
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Universal Palaeography: Or, Fac-similes of Writings of All Nations ..., Volume 2

Joseph Balthazar Silvestre, Champollion-Figeac (M., Jacques-Joseph), Aimé Louis Champollion-Figeac, Jean-François Champollion - Paleography - 1849 - 456 pages
...is to be attributed. The use of the modern Gothic writing spread over Europe ; the art of printing at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries propagated it still more extensively ; but good taste and the general progress of the arts soon afterwards...
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