I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

An alphabetic cuneiform script with 30 signs including three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before the 15th century BC.

The Hittites smelted rather brittle iron from the 15th century BC and the new metal was introduced in Greece.

Kingdom of Portugal's explorers and settlers, founded trading posts and forts along the coast of Africa since the 15th century, and reached the Angolan coast in the 16th century.

The Anatolian beyliks were in turn absorbed into the rising Ottoman Empire during the 15th century.

Grace O ' Malley's Castle Kildamhnait Castle is a 15th century tower house associated with the O ' Malley Clan, who were once a ruling family of Achill.

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

St. Dominic of Silos enthroned as abbot ( Hispano-Flemish Gothic 15th century )

In the 15th century, the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg compiled the Zij-i-Sultani, in which he catalogued 1, 019 stars.

A long series of cultural development culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century.

Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, ( 1386 – October 20, 1439 ) was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century.

This was an order that had been founded by Giovanni Scarpa at the end of the 15th century.

The European acceptance of the numerals was accelerated by the invention of the printing press, and they became widely known during the 15th century.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

The Ark carried into the Temple from the early 15th century Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere in the 13th – 15th century were made of iron.

Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

In the early 15th century, advances in weaponry allowed infantry to defeat armoured knights on the battlefield.

If during the 14 – 15th centuries armour seldom weighed more than 15 kg, then by the late 16th century it weighed 25 kg.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.

Yaksha Malla, the grandson of Jayasthiti Malla, ruled the Kathmandu Valley until almost the end of the 15th century.

According to Harley, Thomas Byrd, the grandson of Richard Byrd of Ingatestone, Essex, likely moved to London in the 15th century.

In English this " of " disappeared during the 15th century: for example the grandson of Johannes de Stoke ( John of Stoke ) in a 14th-century document becomes " John Stoke ".

His grandson Jayant Chaudhary is recently elected to 15th Lok Sabha from Mathura.

* Lady Elizabeth Butler, whose grandson, John, succeeded as 15th Earl of Ormonde.

He was born into one of the most influential aristocratic families of 15th century Spain the grandson of King Henriquez IV's crypto-Jewish Contador General Diego Arias de Ávila, deceased 1466, and Elvira González, deceased 1463, parents of three children, namely, Pedro, deceased 1476 while fighting took place in Madrid and the father of our Pedro, Juan, later Bishop of Segovia, deceased at Rome, Italy, 1497 and Isabel, deceased 1472, whose descendants always resident at Segovia, could be tracked afterward, in the 16th century in the Inquisition records and trials.

The Straus family had several influential members including Straus's grandson Roger W. Straus, Jr., who started the publishing company of Farrar, Straus and Giroux ; his brother, Isidor Straus, who perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912, served as a representative from New York City's 15th District, and was co-owner of the department store R. H. Macy & Co. along with another brother Nathan ; and nephew Jesse Isidor Straus, confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936.

The manuscript appears to have been retained by Hopcyn's family until the end of the 15th century, when Hopcyn's grandson Hopcyn ap Rhys was held complicit in the rebellion against King Edward IV and consequently saw much of his property forfeited.

By the end of the 15th century, some of the heretics remained under the protection of Yelena Stefanovna and her son tsarevich Dmitry ( grandson of Ivan III ).

The collection of prints covers the tradition of fine printmaking from its beginnings in the 15th century up to the present, with near complete holdings of most of the great names before the 19th century.

According to European accounts, during a great famine in 14th or 15th century girls were killed after coming to life in order to equilibrate demography.

In the 15th century, the Habsburg domination was challenged by the Counts of Celje, but by the end of the century the great majority of Slovene-inhabited territories were incorporated into the Habsburg Monarchy.

Both bourgeoisie and nobility in the 15th and 16th century showed great fascination with these arts, which exerted an exotic charm by their ascription to Arabic, Jewish, Gypsy and Egyptian sources.

The style, known as Perpendicular, that evolved from this treatment is specific to England, although very similar to contemporary Spanish style in particular, and was employed to great effect through the 15th century and first half of the 16th as Renaissance styles were much slower to arrive in England than in Italy and France.

His principal importance was, however, as editor of three scientific journals of great value: Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden ( 4 vols., Gotha, 1798-1799 ), Monatliche Correspondenz zur Beförderung der Erd-und Himmels-Kunde ( 28 vols., Gotha, 1800-1813, from 1807 edited by Bernhard von Lindenau ), and ( Genoa, 1818-1826, 14 vols., and one number of the 15th, the suppression of which was instigated by the Jesuits ).

As the home of the great Yorkist line the village was, for a considerable part of the 15th and 16th centuries, of national standing.

Portions of the 15th Regiment of Alabama Infantry, which served with great distinction throughout the U. S. Civil War, were recruited in Dale County, with all of Co. " E " and part of Co. " H " being composed of Dale County residents.

It has its origins in the 15th century war with the English for control of France when a victorious Charles VII of France gave the domain and great forest of Oiron to Guillaume Gouffier who became governor of Touraine.

The origin of the ship of the line can be found in the nau ( carrack ) first built by the Portuguese and similar great ships built by Britain and other western European states in the 15th and 16th centuries.

It was completed between 1510 and 1520 in the perpendicular style that had become popular during much of the 15th century and features a walkway roughly at two thirds of the height of the tower that encircles the edges giving great views from the Wash in the east towards Lincoln in the west.

This province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and Dijon was a place of tremendous wealth and power and one of the great European centres of art, learning and science.

The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the centre ; beneath it are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above it are three six-pointed golden stars arranged in an inverted triangle which are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Celje, the great Slovenian dynastic house of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

1-3 Shirehall Plain-The building is thought to be the oldest house in Holt ( the cellar dates back to the 15th century ), a survivor of the great fire of Holt in 1708 and a further fire in the building in 1906.

* The Church of St. Nicholas ( Bovenkerk ): a great Gothic basilica dating from the 14th and 15th centuries.

Basilios ( or Basilius ) Bessarion ( in Greek Βασίλειος Βησσαρίων ) ( January 2, 1403 – November 18, 1472 ), a Roman Catholic Cardinal Bishop and the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, was one of the illustrious Greek scholars who contributed to the great revival of letters in the 15th century.

During the 15th to 18th centuries, a " great divergence " took place, comprising the European Renaissance, age of discovery, the formation of the colonial empires, the Age of Reason and the associated leap forward in technology, and the development of capitalism and early industrialisation.

His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the following 200 years ; today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third ( by birth date ) of the three great Early Flemish artists (' Vlaamse Primitieven '), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.

15th century Portuguese voyager Duarte Barbosa claimed, " is a place of great traffic and has a good harbour in which there are always moored small craft of many kinds and also great ships, both of which are bound from Sofala and others which come from Cambay and Melinde and others which sail to the island of Zanzibar.

It was founded in the beginning of the 15th by Tsongkhapa ( 1357-1419 ), who was " strongly scholastic in orientation and encouraged the study of the great Indian masters of philosophy ".

Before the 15th, ( according to the story by Sports Illustrated's great boxing writer Pat Putnam ) ' Ali was on very wobbly legs '.

During the 15th century, New Romney, once a port of great importance at the mouth of the river Rother ( until it became completely blocked by the shifting of sands during the great storm of 1287 ), was considered the central port in the confederation, and the place of assembly for the Cinque Port Courts, the oldest such authority being vested in the ' Kynges high courte of Shepway ', which was being held from at least 1150.