...commentaries on the works of Aristotle (especially his physical treatises), were published at Venice, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. His Comment, on the Manual of Epict. has been given by SCUWEIOH. Monum. Epict. Phil. torn. IV. v Cic....

...enumerating those great features in the history of the progress of the human mind, which exhibited themselves at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, we remarked the high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe, in the age of Leo X. There...

...The third volume in our list is a collection of French poems, written by an Italian, Alione of Asti, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, published from the only complete copy of his poems, which was formerly in the library of our countryman...

...Three-centered and Four-centered Pointed Arches and Three-centered Elliptical Arches were much used at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and are often called mixed arches. (See pi. 1. figs. 14, 15, 16, 20.) 16. The Drop Arch is formed by...

...enumerating those great features in the history of the progress of the human mind, which exhibited themselves at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, we remarked the high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe, in the age of Leo X. There...

...improved the poetical language of his country. William Dunbar, who resided at the court of James IV., (at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries) composed poems of an allegorical, moral, and comic description, and thus considerably extended the...

...There are many printed books, still in good preservation, that were bound in calf with oaken boards, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries; these are mostly stamped with gold and blind-tools, which are well worth our attention. Let me here...

...BAIARDI, or BAIARDO, the name of two old Italian writers. 1. Andrea, a poet of Parma, who flourished at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and enjoyed the favour of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. He was rich, possessing the castle of Albari,...

...is to be attributed. The use of the modern Gothic writing spread over Europe ; the art of printing at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries propagated it still more extensively ; but good taste and the general progress of the arts soon afterwards...

...the appearance of Protestantism, this language was taught in Paris by the Italian Gregory de Tiferno. At the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, Germany itself could boast of the celebrated John Reuchlin, who taught Greek with great applause, first...