Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pianos, violins and vocalizing floats out of narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar that serves cannelloni till dawn...
...early as the 3rd century, Pope Stephen I condemned the practice of rebaptizing converted Donatist heretics in North Africa. Despite its attack on Reformation doctrines, the 16th century Council of Trent formally acknowledged the validity of Protestant baptisms. Time and again since then, the Holy Office, the Vatican's guardian of faith and morals, has ruled that converts should not even be "conditionally" baptized unless there is clear evidence that the form of the first christening was defective...
...summer. Nowadays, nearly every American is within a day's drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
Troubled & Sad. Crisp reminders of everyday reality shocked and estranged his 16th century public; he even got fired midway through work on frescoes for the duomo in Cremona. Today his inventive if taciturn brilliance is earning him increasing admiration. He is recognized more and more as a man of his time, for his canvases, above all, are a commingling of the shifting manners then stirring in the art world...
...consecration, the "substance" of the bread and wine became Christ's body; what remained, visible to the senses, were merely "accidents"-the shape and texture of the host, the taste and color of the wine. In reaction to the dissenting views of the Protestant reformers, the 16th century Council of Trent made this teaching an article of faith...