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Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.
At the Anabaptist Council of Venice 1550, the early Italian instigators of the Radical Reformation committed to the views of Miguel Servet ( d. 1553 ), and these were promulgated by Giorgio Biandrata and others into Poland and Transylvania.
Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, a village of the Republic of Venice situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso.
The three most prestigious film festivals are commonly regarded to be that of Cannes, Berlin and Venice ; these festivals are sometimes called the " Big Three.
" Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Three Colors Trilogy were each made for these festivals, with Blue for Venice, White for Berlin, and Red for Cannes.
This was the start of the optical industry of grinding and polishing lenses for these " spectacles ", first in Venice and Florence in the thirteenth century, and later in the spectacle making centres in both the Netherlands and Germany.
He managed to overcome most of these problems — the Holy See's disputes with the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, Spain, Venice, and Austria were settled.
In 1425, Uccello travelled to Venice, where he worked on the mosaics for the façade of San Marco ( all these works have been lost ).
Despite all of these incentives to economic growth and prosperity, the population of Florence at the dawn of the 17th century was a mere 75, 000, far smaller than the other capitals of Italy: Rome, Milan, Venice, Palermo and Naples.
In order to strengthen the dominance of these countries in European football and to financially support the professional clubs, the introduction of the Mitropa Cup was decided at a meeting in Venice on July 17, following the initiative of the head of the Austrian Football Association ( ÖFB ), Hugo Meisl.
Many fine boxwood specimens are in the Brussels Conservatory museum ; most of these are from late 16th-century Venice, where Vincenzo Galilei ( Dialogo, 1581 ) said that the best cornetts of his day were made.
The Venetian Senate willingly accepted this advice and Fra Paolo presented the case to Paul V, urging from history that the Pope's claim to intermeddle in civil matters was a usurpation ; and that in these matters the Republic of Venice recognized no authority but that of God.
He had visited Venice in between these dates, and may have obtained different information.
The first edition of these two works is the Aldine edition ( Rhetores Graeci, Venice, 1508, fol., vol.
Although his grandson later wrote of the family's roots in Venice, it seems the family's only connection with that city was through these sisters, for the only records of the family in the archives of the Venetian Ghetto are Venturina ’ s death there in 1821, and the register of the death of Rachel in 1837.
During the Great War ( 1683 – 90 ) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League — created with the sponsorship of the Pope and including Austria, Poland and Venicethese three powers as means of divide and conquer strategy, incited including Serbs to rebel against the Ottoman authorities and soon uprisings and terrorism spread throughout the western Balkans: from Montenegro and the Dalmatian Coast to the Danube basin and Old Serbia ( Macedonia, Raška, Kosovo and Metohija ).
) From these hints, a list of Kempe's parts has been deduced which, if conjectural, is not improbable: Costard in Love's Labours Lost, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, and Cob in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour.
Many of these works were installed in the international exhibition in the 2001 Venice Biennale, and contributed substantially to Tyson ’ s winning the Turner Prize the following year.
Hume represented Great Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women ( again, these were gloss paint on aluminium ).
None of these works, except his Anatomy ( Venice, 1561 ), were published during his lifetime.
Later, northern Italy developed its own trade empires based on Pisa and especially the powerful Republic of Genoa, that rivaled with Venice ( these three, along with Amalfi, were to be called the Repubbliche marinare, i. e. Sea Republics ).
Among these were Hermann, " bacalaurio in medicina ", astrologist Baptista de Vesentio, Maestro Zoano barbero from Genoa ( in 1468 ), Isaac Beg ( in 1473 ), Don Antonio Branca ( skilled in fixing cut noses ), Mateo Muriano from Venice ( in 1502 ), and Hieronimo di Cesena from Venice ( in 1503 ).
Particular cities, and later nation-states, follow each other sequentially as centers of these cycles: Venice and Genoa in 13th through 15th centuries ( 1250 – 1510 ), Antwerp in 16th century ( 1500 – 1569 ), Amsterdam in 16th through 18th centuries ( 1570 – 1733 ), and London ( and England ) in 18th and 19th centuries ( 1733 – 1896 ).

Venice and books
Today, antique books printed by the Aldine Press in Venice are referred to as Aldines.
In the 16th century Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable magnificence. The 16th and 17th centuries saw other privately endowed libraries assembled in Rome: the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of Cesare Baronio, the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in Counter-Reformation Rome ; the Biblioteca Alessandrina with which Pope Alexander VII endowed the University of Rome ; the Biblioteca Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate ; and finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the bibliophile Clement XII Corsini and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini, still housed in Palazzo Corsini in via della Lungara. The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. In Milan Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
Marco Polo's other legacies include Venice Marco Polo Airport, the Marco Polo sheep, and several books and films.
By 1482 Venice was the printing capital of the world, and the leading printer was Aldus Manutius, who invented the concept of paperback books that could be carried in a saddlebag.
The first edition of books 3 and 4 was that edited by Trincavelli ( Venice, 4to.
West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).
The Venice Library was lost in 1485 during the collapse of the abbey's bell tower, but following the invention of movable type printing by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, the rotting books had been saved in their entirety by making their first typeset copy " of about 1, 000 volumes ", with each typeset book containing 10 manuscripts.
From there the script passed to the 15th-and 16th-century printers of books, such as Aldus Manutius of Venice.
Finally, the Aldine Press, founded by the printer Aldo Manuzio, active in Venice, developed Italic type and the small, relatively portable and inexpensive printed book that could be carried in one's pocket, as well as being the first to publish editions of books in Ancient Greek.
With the printing of books initiated in Venice by Aldus Manutius, an increasing number of works began to be published in the Italian language in addition to the flood of Latin and Greek texts that constituted the mainstream of the Italian Renaissance.
In 1533 and 1534 he published two books of four voice madrigals in Venice ; these were to become extremely popular, so much so that their 1540 reprint was one of the most widely printed and distributed music books of the first half of the 16th century.
From 1492 onwards Venice began to regularly granting privileges for books.
His major works include Šahbaza, Bone and meat, The Sarajevo tomb ( Sarajevski tabut ), Why is Venice sinking ( Zašto tone Venecija ), several books of poetry, and screenplays for award-winning movies from the Former Yugoslavia, such as the Oscar-nominated When Father Was Away on Business and Do You Remember Dolly Bell ?, directed by Emir Kusturica ; and Kuduz and The Perfect Circle, directed by Ademir Kenović.
His Greek grammar ( in four books ), written in Greek, first printed at Venice in 1495, and afterwards partially translated by Erasmus in 1521, although in many respects defective, especially in its syntax, was for a long time the leading textbook.
During the second half of his life, Palladio published many books, above all, I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura (" The four books of architecture ", Venice, 1570 ).
His most important works are the two books of Prattica di musica ( Musical Practice ) which he published in Venice in 1592 and 1622.
Zodiacus vitae is a Latin poem divided into 12 books, one for each sign of the zodiac, published at Basel in 1543, but first published in Venice in 1536, and dedicated to Ercole II d ' Este, duke of Ferrara.
Several books of madrigals published in Venice in the late 1530s include his work ; one of these books is devoted entirely to him.
Within forty years of Gutenberg's invention, and despite having no tradition in printing, Venice had become responsible for nearly twenty percent of books published in Europe, and had almost driven the German pioneers out of the upper levels of the market.
* Two books of sacred hymns ( Venice, 1596 and Rome, 1596 )
He wrote masses, motets ( some for eight voices ), psalms ( one collection, published in Venice in 1616, is for 12 voices and basso continuo ), settings of the Passion according to each of the four gospels ( Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ), Marian antiphons, and several books of madrigals.

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