Sentences with phrase «early sixteenth century»

To those familiar with the story's sole source» the semihero Bartolomé de Las Casas, who wrote in the early sixteenth century» this should come as no surprise.

Since so much of the book depends upon conjecture, it remains doubtful that Wilson has truly found the man behind the art, but he nevertheless presents an informative and highly readable account of both Holbein and the early sixteenth century.

And it was in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric fiction, in the three greatest Italian romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.

Church structures and teachings of the fifteenth century were not workable or sustainable in the early sixteenth century.

There was much in the New Learning of the early sixteenth century which called for assimilation within the theology and philosophy of the Church.

To the Incas, who thrived in this part of South America from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries, ají was a mythological character in spoken lore and poetry.

What today we consider lace is said to have originated in the early sixteenth century.

Other breeds include the Peruvian Inca Orchid, rarely found outside Peru, and first recorded by Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth century.

Ship's logs of the early sixteenth century reveal that dogs were brought along on these early colonists» voyages, and logic tells us they were most likely the dog of Tenerife, common ancestor to all the Bichon family.

The dog's journey to Cuba most likely was aboard the trade ships sailing from the island of Tenerife in the early sixteenth century.

The origins of Carrog are unclear but it is known that an agricultural community already existed when a parish church was built beside the river in the early sixteenth century.

Inspired by the depictions of a black man and woman drawn by Albrecht Dürer in the early sixteenth century, Peripeteia (2012) traces the appearance and disappearance of African lives in early modern Europe.

In the early sixteenth century Venice established itself as a powerful maritime republic and center of international trade.

The confetti, or conpeito, more than likely gets its name from konpeitō, a Japanese sugar candy that originated in Portugal after a flask of it was presented to Nobunaga as a gift from a Christian missionary in the early sixteenth century.