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Visual arts: Mannerism, Northern Renaissance, Hans Baldung, Matthias Grünewald, Brueghel, Quentin Matsys, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Dürer

Criminals: Elizabeth Báthory

Literature: Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Utopia, The Prince, The Book of the Courtier, I Modi, picaresque novels

Writers: François Rabelais, Thomas More, Niccolò Machiavelli, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino

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Born two years before Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch's work is radically different from his better known contemporary, the first exemplifies Italian Renaissance, the second Northern Renaissance.
Born two years after Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci's work is far less transgressive than his lesser known contemporary, the first exemplifies Northern Renaissance, the second Italian Renaissance.
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Born two years after Hieronymus Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci's work is far less transgressive than his lesser known contemporary, the first exemplifies Northern Renaissance, the second Italian Renaissance.

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 through 1600.

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Literature

Literature in the 16th century was still the province of a happy few. Important books include Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais and Heptameron by the Queen of Navarre.

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, illustrated by Gustave Doré
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, illustrated by Gustave Doré

Titles: Gargantua and Pantagruel - I Modi

Literature in the 16th century was still the province of a happy few, the movable type printing press was only a recent invention. Important books include Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, In Praise of Folly by Erasmus, the anonymously published Lazarillo de Tormes and Heptameron by the Marguerite de Navarre.

Medieval romances were reduced to cheap and abrupt plots resembling modern comic books. Neither were the first collections of novels necessarily prestigious projects. They appeared with an enormous variety from folk tales over jests to stories told by Boccaccio and Chaucer, now venerable authors.

A more prestigious market of romances developed in the 16th century, with multi-volume works aiming at an audience which would subscribe to this production. The criticism levelled against romances by Chaucer's pilgrims grew in response both to the trivialisations and to the extended multi-volume "romances". Romances like the Amadis de Gaula led their readers into dream worlds of knighthood and fed them with ideals of a past no one could revitalise, or so the critics complained.

Italian authors like Machiavelli were among those who brought the novel into a new format: while it remained a story of intrigue, ending in a surprising point, the observations were now much finer: how did the protagonists manage their intrigue? How did they keep their secrets, what did they do when others threatened to discover them?

Curiosities included Hermaphroditus, Book of Kisses, Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman and The Book of the Prick.

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Countercultural events

Countercultural events: In 1512 Copernicus states that the earth revolves around the sun. In the 1530s the first sodomy laws arise in the UK. Medieval heretics of Anabaptism.

from A Biased Timeline of the Counter-Culture 1500- HIGH RENAISSANCE Age of exploration & colonization of Asia, Africa, Cen & So Am rise of the centralized state (Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare) 1501 Moors of Spain defeated/conquered expelled? 1502 Peasants' revolt, Speyer, Ger 1509 restart of European slave trade; settlers bring Africans to S. Am. 1512 Copernicus states that the earth and planets revolve around the sun (1549 objection) 1513 Peasants' revolt: Wurttemberg and Black Forest 1514 Peasants' revolt, Hungary 1516 Sir Thomas More: Utopia (1551 translated from Latin to Eng) 1517 Martin Luther, inspired by the conservative Hussites, protests against the Church's sales of indulgences by posting his 95 theses on the door of the Palast Church, Wittenberg --> Reformation in Germany 1524-5 Peasants' revolt against landlords S. Ger. led by Thomas Munzer, founder of the Anabaptist movement (& Austria) - defeated 1528 The weavers of Kent riot against Wolsey's policy to move English staple town for wool from Antwerp to Calais 1534 `Communist state' of Anabaptists under leadership of John of Leiden at Munster, Westphalia 1536 Church of England separates from the Pope 1536 first European newspaper: Gazetta, Venice (& see 1566) 1547 Nostradamus (1503-66) makes first predictions 1550- EARLY BAROQUE 1560 Huguenots (Fr) / Puritanism (Eng) 1566 Calvinist riots in Netherlands; Inquisition there abolished 1567 two million Native Americans in Sout America die of typhoid fever 1579 St. John of the Cross: xxx

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