Montesquieu’s philosophy was highly regarded and it had a massive contribution in the shaping of the US constitution. Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, was born on January 18, 1689, in La Brède, France, just outside of Bordeaux, to an aristocratic family with considerable wealth in landholdings. His mother, Marie Françoise de Pesnel who died when Charles de Secondat was seven, was a female inheritor of a large monetary inheritance who brought the title of barony of La Brède to the Secondat family. As a young man, he studied Latin, French, history, and the law before graduating from the University of Bordeaux in 1708. In 1715 he married Jeanne Lartigue, whose family brought him tremendous wealth, and a year later his uncle died leaving him with his title of Baron de la Brède and property making him immensely rich.
Quattrocento also known as the Italian Renaissance was a pivotal time for individuals in the art world. Many artist were discovered and are still considered famous today. These pioneer artist displayed a presence of scientific, cultural and economics through christianity putting forth techniques and ideas that are still used currently.The most renowned 15th century frescoes would be The Sistine Chapel. It is a perfect example of linear perspective in Perugino's Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Peter. Some of the most important collection of Renaissance painting would be that of Federico da Montefeltro who helped Urbino flourish in art and culture and commissioned perhaps the largest library in Italy with the paintings in Monefelto's court displaying the first theoretical treatise on perspective.
How Successful were Wolsey’s Domestic Policies?? In this essay I’m going to be writing about Thomas Wolsey and how successful he was in dealing with all the domestic policies and if they were success or failures. Cardinal Wolsey introduced some policies over the time period of 1515-1529 when he was in power, historians have argued that for centuries whether his policies were a success or a failure. Wolsey was exceedingly powerful during his reign and held a very high and mighty position. His roles were very important and had to be done very well, his roles were Kings Chief Minister and cardinal with a papal legate, making him very controlling but also giving him lots of responsibilities for the administration of places from finance to control of the church and also legal reforms.
Duoyi Xi 5/23/14 Thematic Essay 133 The Renaissance The Renaissance is often considered the beginning of the modern era. It has influenced commerce, literature, the arts and sciences in Europe and spread to the rest of the world. Italy had the earliest manifestation of the European Renaissance. England was affected by the Renaissance in terms of literature by one of the most famous authors of his time. Italy had great works of art that were created in that time.
Northern European artists produced art through tapestries, manuscripts, and furniture. This type of art was needed because the wealthy had many homes and they needed decorations and furniture for their homes. Italian and Northern European Renaissance generated Literature related to humanity and individuals. The Italians studied the knowledge of how man determined how to be a respectable individual. Northern European Literature focused more on the Catholic Church and how to reform the Church’s humanity.
Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (B) is the account of the life of Charles the Great (A), one of the most powerful and most famous of all medieval rulers. It was written by the palace official and the close friend of Charles (D). The work recounts Charlemagne’s military successes, describes his personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome (C). Charles stands as the founder of both the French and German states. This image of Charlemagne as the builder of the empire undeniably owes a great debt to the portrayal put forward by Einhard in his work the Life of Charlemagne.
Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676). Cavalli is amongst the most important of Monteverdi's successors, Cavalli was a major force in spreading opera throughout Italy and also helped introduce it to France. His
Feudalism, or a class system that regulates relationships among classes of people, was furthered by the Church and helped mold daily life. Other reasons why the Middle Ages can be labeled as the Age of Faith include the various reform movements initiated and roles the pope played. The era between 500 and 1400 in Western Europe, or the Middle Ages, can be labeled the Age of Faith because of the Church’s influence in unification throughout Western Europe, daily life, and politics. Although the Church didn’t come into its full potential for power until about the eleventh century, the Catholic Church did have a lot of influence in uniting Western Europe. Right after the Roman Empire fell, many Germanic tribes went to war with each other and carved Western Europe into small kingdoms.
He asked Bodoni to assume management of the Royal Press (Stamperia Reale), in 1768. There, he printed materials for court use, as well as produced Italian, Greek, and Latin books. As he gained notoriety for his craft, the Duke allowed him an even larger press, and the independence to take on additional projects (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2013). His work was regal, and sophisticated. The typography that Bodoni was able to produce is regarded, even today, as some of the most structured, and refined printing that has ever been produced.
Music was an essential part of civic, religious, and courtly life in the Renaissance. The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of musical instruments. The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches and court chapels. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, patronage was split among many areas: the Catholic Church, Protestant churches and courts, wealthy amateurs, and music printing—all were sources of income for composers. The early fifteenth century was dominated initially by English and then Northern European composers.