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It is the story of the soul's journey to salvation. The lengthy poem is divided into three major sections: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, or Paradise.
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chaucer used the english vernacular in his beauty of expreession and clear forceful language were important in making his dialect the chief ancestor of the modern english language
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St. George is identified with the ideals of honor, bravery and gallantry not much is know about him. he became a roman soldiar at the age of 17 and was renowned for his bravery
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was among the first to use oil paint, whitch enabled the artist to use a wide variety of colors and create fine detaild as in his painting Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride.
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Flippo was nominal ruler of pavia in 1402. Flippo Maria recieveaved a dowry of nearly half million florins. But when beatrice took to great an interest in affairs of state. He accused her of adultery an had her beheaded at the cassle of Binasco in 1418.
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Charles intered Italy with 25,000 men but 8,000 of them were swiss merchants. They marched across a peninsula in 1494 they made it to naples by February 22, 1495. After the battle King Alfonso was exspelled and Charles Vlll was crowened king of naples.
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written in 1509, Erasmus humorously criticized aspects of his society that he beleived were most in need of reform.
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the prince concerns how to acquire-and- keep -political power.in the middle ages many writers on political power
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began the reformation in the early sixteenth century,
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the terible sack of rome in 1527 by the armies of the spanish king charles i ended the italian wars and left the spanish a dominant force in itally
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Castiglione describe that the first noble was born not made. he was thought to havelots of grace and talent.a chief had to perform military and physical exercise.
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in 1568, Marcus van Vaernewijck, a notoriously unreliable historian, described the portrait as 'a small panel... wherein was depicted an espousal of a man and a woman espoused by fides'
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the mona lisa is the most famous painting in the world.Vasari, who is generally thought to have known the painting only by repute.it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as alive as the original.
