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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.
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I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
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The abacus had fallen out of use in western Europe in the 16th century with the rise of decimal notation and algorismic methods.
The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.
* Anatomy in the 16th century studies and digitized texts by the BIUM ( Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine et d ' odontologie, Paris ) see its digital library Medic @.
The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.
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.
Parts of both countries were part of the Portuguese Empire from the early 16th century until Brazil's independence in 1822.
Granuaile maintained a castle at Kildownet in the 16th century.
Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.
At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.
These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.
In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments, to measure star positions more accurately than previously, with a precision of 15 – 35 arcsec.
Gothic-This style prevailed between the 12th century and the 16th century in Europe.
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.
With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.
A third use of the term pertains specifically to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, for instance, " In the 16th century, many Americans died from imported diseases during the European conquest ".
The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.
Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.
There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.
According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.
From the early 16th century, Aachen lost power.
16th and Sixtus
In the 16th century it was located and dug up, and Sixtus V had it re-erected on a new pedestal on August 3, 1588 on its present site.
The latter would be transformed in the 16th century into the College of Saint Thomas (), and then in the 20th century into the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum sited at the convent of Saints Dominic and Sixtus.
And about the 16th century controversies, Thomas Burgess summarized " In the sixteenth century its chief opponents were Socinus, Blandrata, and the Fratres Poloni ; its defenders, Ley, Beza, Bellarmine, and Sixtus Senensis.
16th and V
On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.
* Pirro Colonna, 16th century captain under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
In both cases the requisite condition was unattainable ; neither in the 16th nor in the 18th century has it been practicable to set bounds to the spirit of inquiry otherwise than by fire and sword, and Ganganelli's successors have been driven into assuming a position analogous to that of Popes Paul IV ( 1555 – 59 ) and Pius V ( 1566 – 72 ) in the age of the Reformation.
As a result of the site's many construction phases: from the original 9th century citadel, through the 14th century Muslim palaces, to the 16th century palace of Charles V ; some buildings are at odd positioning to each other.
The situation changed in the early 16th century, during the wars between Charles V and Francis I of France.
The traditional 15 Mysteries of the Rosary were standardized based on the long-standing custom, by Pope St. Pius V in the 16th century.
In the 16th century, Pope Pius V introduced the rosary into the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar as the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on October 7.
The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.
* The Palazzo di Paolo V ( 16th century ).
The Villa Suso, which dwelt Martin Salinas, Ambassador Carlos V ( 16th century ).
* The 16th century Castle of Charles V. It houses the Town Museum, with findings excavated in the ancient site of Kroton.
On the 16th of April in 1526 Emperor Charles V gave Edam the right to have a market every week.
The change of dynasty can be considered as the epilogue of the first act of a long struggle between the Castilian monarchy and the aristocracy ; this struggle was to continue for more than three centuries and come to an end only under Charles I of Spain, the grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragon ( Ferdinand V of Castile ) and Isabella I of Castile ( The Catholic Monarchs ), in the first quarter of the 16th century.
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Philippeville region was on the boundary between Charles V ’ s Burgundian Netherlands and Francis I ’ s France.
In the early 16th century, the Spanish monarchy controlled several territories in Europe under the Habsburg King Charles I ( also Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V ), son of Queen Joanna of Castile.
Many of the earlier papal tiaras ( most notably the tiaras of Pope Julius II and that attributed to Pope Saint Silvester ) were destroyed, dismantled or seized by invaders ( most notably by Berthier's army in 1798 ), or by popes themselves ; Pope Clement VII had all the tiaras and papal regalia melted down in 1527 to raise the 400, 000 ducats ransom demanded by the occupying army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Over twenty silver tiaras exist, of which the earliest, the sole survivor of 1798, was made for Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th century.
* The Council of Trent, one of the ecumenical councils recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, held in that city in the 16th century, and to the teachings emphasized by it and the related legislation issued by the Popes of the time, especially Pope Pius V
The exceptionally important royal collection, which forms the nucleus of the present-day Museo del Prado, started to increase significantly in the 16th century during the time of Charles V and continued under the succeeding Habsburg and Bourbon monarchs.
* V Corps with four divisions ( 13th, 15th, 16th Infantry and the İştip Redif divisions )
It was after the arrival of the Spanish missionaries on the Philippines in 16th century that Bathala came to be identified as the Christian God. Thus Bathala in Filipino is synonymous to Diyos ( God ) or Dibino ( Divine, e. g. Mabathalang Awa ), according to J. V.
It appears likely that it was the Spanish administration of Charles V in the early 16th century, who started to use the red tape in an effort to modernise the administration that was running his vast empire.
The motto became popular in Spain after Charles V became king of both Aragon and Castile in the early 16th century.
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