...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...

...preserved name, was Ambrosius Calepinus, called so from Calepium, a town between Bergamo and Brescia, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and died 1510, at Bergamo, at a very advanced age. His dictionary, Lexicon Calepinum,...

...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...

...; they attribute the origin of the fete of La Rosiere, in that country, to Medard, bishop of Noyou, who lived at the end of the fifteenth, and beginning of the sixteenth century, during the reign of Clovis. That bishop, who was also Lord of Salency, had established...

...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. H e was rich, possessing the castle of Albari,...