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...first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect of the medium through which all their thinking passed. You will find that Charles Lamb, whose reading was chiefly of the writers of the sixteenth century, has the most Latin style of any of our modern authors...
...sixteenth century represents the climax of Italian art. During that period elegance, taste, and sensuousness in the highest degree were developed in the work of the Venetian painters, at the head of whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought...
...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...