Word: sixteenth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time of the higher Renaissance in Florence, he said, was the sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating...
...brings with these qualities the fire, earnestness and frankness of youthful enthusiasm. The constant aim of these independent workers was to paint what they saw as they saw it. Art in this early period of the Renaissance is comparable to a great uncut diamond which appears in the sixteenth century cut and ready for polish, but it is not until the seventeenth century that we see the jewel in its perfection. After the seventeenth century the diamond degenerates into a mere imitation of its past splendor...
...claimed for members of their brotherhood immunity from the ordinary duties of citizenship. In England the clergy possessed the right to punish for crime all accused persons who could prove their right to the "benefit of the clergy" by reading a passage from the Bible. As late as the sixteenth century, a clerk in orders could be only branded for murder. The well-known story of Becket's struggle against Henry shows the power that the church possessed...
...familiar have received their impulse and inspiration from the characteristics and peculiarities of the nations which were dominant at the several times of their origin. We have had the Roman, Gothic and Medixval styles and then out of the reformation and regeneration of ideas which came in the sixteenth century grew the Renaissance, which has represented the ideas and inventions of the past hundred years...
...Italy was wrapped up in art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Everybody, workmen as well as noblemen, took an interest in the beauty of the cities and in the beauty of every little thing. It was part of their daily life...