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.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

The tower, which fell down twice during the 15th century, got its current look in 1890.

The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the " Vow of Louis XIII ", one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques ( 14th and 15th centuries ), dedicated to Saint James of Compostela, the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal tower, the base of which is in Romanesque style, while the upper levels, built later, are in Gothic style.

The original 15th / 16th century college buildings now form part of First Court, including the chapel, Master's Lodge and Great Gate tower.

To the south by the river Stour, dating from the 15th century, is a single surviving tower of Caldwall ( or Caldwell ) Castle, a fortified manor house.

It is characterized by a Clock Tower ( Torre dell ' Orologio, late 15th century ), once paired with another tower ( Torre Civica ) demolished after an earthquake in 1671.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

The parish church of St Andrew is a fine building of the 15th century with a tall tower and two aisle.

Nikolaus Pevsner ( writing in 1950 ) is uncertain about the dating and suggests that the Norman work has some Saxon features, while the tower may be 13th or 15th century in date.

The castle was rebuilt as an L-plan tower house in the early 15th century.

It was built in the 15th century, but has kept a tower from the 13th century.

Église Notre-Dame is a cathedral which was originally built in the late 13th century and its tower was added in the late 14th or early 15th century.

Records suggest that the Church of Our Dear Lady was present on the site since 1350 and its tower dates from 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.

The square plan bell tower is from the 15th century.

By the mid 15th century the Brews family had added a tower and porch.

Peto also had the ancient Parish Church of St Mary rebuilt in 1854 but retaining many historic features including the 15th century tower and rood screen ; it is a Grade II * Listed building

The entrance to the castle is through a tower northeast corner, though this was also a 15th century modification.

This includes two magnificent 15th century churches, the largely intact 17th century city walls, gates and tower ( the Drommedaris, see picture ) and the 17th century city hall.

Like the old village centre with its small houses and the church with late medieval 15th century clock tower ( on picture, wooden top from 1642 ), and the old farms, surrounded by modern houses nowadays.

The cathedral contains the oldest ring of ten bells in the United Kingdom, with the 15th century tenor being older than the tower itself.

In the 15th century the fashion spread with the creation of very expensive, French-influenced palatial castles featuring complex tower keeps at Wardour, Tattershall and Raglan Castle.