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.

However, in the late 15th century, Thomas Malory created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, a work based mostly on the French romances.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

Under Mortimer J. Adler ( member of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica since its inception in 1949, and its chair from 1974 ; director of editorial planning for the 15th edition of Britannica from 1965 ), the Britannica sought not only to be a good reference work and educational tool but to systematise all human knowledge.

When American physicist Harvey Einbinder detailed its failings in his 1964 book, The Myth of the Britannica, the encyclopaedia was provoked to produce the 15th edition, which required 10 years of work.

It could be said that Martyr was the 15th opera of the partnership, since the Carl Rosa Opera Company presented the work as an opera in 1898.

The development of the medieval Arthurian cycle and the character of the " Arthur of romance " culminated in Le Morte d ' Arthur, Thomas Malory's retelling of the entire legend in a single work in English in the late 15th century.

The title Liber Pontificalis goes back to the 12th century, although it only became current in the 15th century, and the canonical title of the work since the edition of Duchesne in the 19th century.

Close by is a Renaissance structure with six round arches, called La Loggia, which was started at the very end of the 14th century and finished in the early 15th, but which has undergone much restoration work over the subsequent centuries.

Hugh Marwick's work has shown the name developing from ' Rollesay ' in the 14th century, through ' Rolsay ' in the 15th, and ' Rowsay ' in the early 16th, with the spelling ' Rousay ' first recorded in 1549.

Making pasta ; illustration from the 15th century edition of Tacuinum Sanitatis, a Latin translation of the Arabic work Taqwīm al-sihha by Ibn Butlan.

Also in the 15th century was written the Seniloquium, an erudite and anonymous work containing a compendium of Spanish sayings and proverbs with commentaries.

* In China, written work begins on the Siku Quanshu, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history ( surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century ).

The Italian Renaissance brought about a stricter interpretation of Aristotle, as this long-lost work came to light in the late 15th century.

The Moresque style of Renaissance ornament is a European adaptation of the Islamic arabesque that began in the late 15th century and was to be used in some types of work, such as bookbinding, until almost the present day.

The oldest surviving English work giving technical information on staff combat dates from the 15th century-it is a brief listing of " strokes of the 2-hand staff ", which shares terminology with the preceding " strokes of the 2-hand sword " in the same manuscript.

The process towards this was started by the June 15th North – South Joint Declaration in August 2000, where the two countries agreed to work towards a peaceful reunification in the future.

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.

Its leader Fernand Braudel devoted the first volume – called The Structures of Everyday Life – of his major work, Civilization and Capitalism 15th – 18th Century to the largely silent and invisible world that existed below the market economy.

The common name " Spanish work " was based on the belief that Catherine of Aragon brought many blackwork garments with her from Spain, and portraits of the later 15th and early 16th centuries show black embroidery or other trim on Spanish chemises.

This Pedro Berruguete work of the 15th century depicts a story of Saint Dominic and the Albigensians, in which the texts of each were cast into a fire, but only Saint Dominic's proved miraculously resistant to the flames.

In the Early Medieval period the text and illumination were often done by the same people, normally monks, but by the High Middle Ages the roles were typically separated, except for routine initials and flourishes, and by at least the 14th century there were secular workshops producing manuscripts, and by the beginning of the 15th century these were producing most of the best work, and were commissioned even by monasteries.

In the 15th century extensive work was undertaken in part, due to damage ( believed to be from natural causes ) in the northern part of the church.

He died before its completion, and the work was completed by the 15th Duke in 1900.

The cathedral was constructed throughout the 13th to 15th centuries, with the principal work done in the 14th century.

Further work was undertaken by Robert, 2nd Lord Maxwell, in the mid 15th century, probably involving reconstruction of the gatehouse.