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Control was always contested; indeed it took until the 16th century for the Pope to have any genuine control over all his territories. Papal responsibilities were often in conflict. The Papal States were involved in at least three wars in the first two decades of the 16th century. [38] Julius II, the "Warrior Pope", fought on their behalf.
The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel's novel about Thomas Cromwell, contains a description of an early 16th-century game of calcio storico fiorentino, emphasising its brutality. [ 10 ] Episode 1 of the 2020 Netflix series Home Game is dedicated to calcio storico fiorentino , featuring behind-the-scenes player vignettes contemporary to the 2019 ...
Francis of St. Michael 1597 James Kisai 1597 John Soan de Goto 1597 Leo Karasuma 1597 Louis Ibarachi: 1585 1597 Martin de Aguirre 1597 Martin Loynaz of the Ascension 1597 Matthias of Meako 1597 Michael Kozaki 1597 Paulo Miki, priest and martyr, and Companions: 1565 1597 Peter Baptist 1597 Peter Canisius: 1521 1597 Peter Shukeshiko 1597 Peter ...
He painted in the lower cloisters of El Escorial at the request of King Philip II. His greatest work were frescoes in the library. His greatest work were frescoes in the library. [1] [2] [3] After nine years, he returned to Italy and was appointed architect of the Duomo of Milan until his death in Milan in 1592.
The world map by the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (from whose name the word America is derived) and Belgian Gerardus Mercator shows (besides the classical continents Europe, Africa, and Asia) the Americas as America sive India Nova', New Guinea, and other islands of Southeast Asia, as well as a hypothetical Arctic continent and a yet undetermined Terra Australis.
Gian Pietro Carafa was born in Capriglia Irpina, near Avellino, into the prominent Carafa family of Naples. [2] His father Giovanni Antonio of the Counts Carafa della Stadera died in West Flanders in 1516 and his mother Vittoria Camponeschi was the daughter of Pietro Lalle Camponeschi, 5th Count of Montorio, a Neapolitan nobleman, and Maria de Noronha, a Portuguese noblewoman of the House of ...
Giacomo Gastaldi (c. 1500 in Villafranca Piemonte – October 1566 in Venice) was an Italian cartographer, astronomer and engineer of the 16th century. [1] Gastaldi (sometimes referred to as Jacopo [2] or Iacobo [3]) began his career as an engineer, serving the Venetian Republic in that capacity until the fourth decade of the sixteenth century ...
A 1721 illustration of so-called "mob football", a variety of medieval football. Medieval football is a modern term used for a wide variety of the localised informal football games which were invented and played in England during the Middle Ages. Alternative names include folk football, mob football and Shrovetide football.