irst Voyage round the world
(Ferd. Magellan)
1519-21 Conquest of Mexico
1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold
1527 Brantome born (d. 1614)
1528 Albert Duerer died
1531-2 Conquest of Peru
1533 Montaigne born (d. 1592)
1535 Henry VIII became Supreme Head of the Church
1537 Sack of Rome
1544 Torquato Tasso born
1553 Edmund Spenser born
1554 Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Sir Philip Sidney born
1555-6 Ridley, Latimer, Cranmer burnt
1558 Calais recaptured by the French
1564 Shakespeare born

NOTES

[1] One of Brunelleschi's devices to bring before the authorities
an idea of the dome he projected, was of standing an egg on end,
as Columbus is famed for doing, fully twenty years before Columbus
was born.

[2] It was Charles V who said of Giotto's Campanile that it ought to
be kept in a glass case.

[3] Hence its new name: Loggia de' Lanzi.

[4] In the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington are casts
of the two Medici on the tombs and also the Madonna and Child. They
are in the great gallery of the casts, together with the great David,
two of the Julian tomb prisoners, the Bargello tondo and the Brutus.

[5] Cacus, the son of Vulcan and Medusa, was a famous robber who
breathed fire and smoke and laid waste Italy. He made the mistake,
however, of robbing Hercules of some cows, and for this Hercules
strangled him.

[6] "Thick as leaves in Vallombrosa" has come to be the form of
words as most people quote them. But Milton wrote ("Paradise Lost,"
Book I. 300-304):--

"He called
His legions, angel-forms, who lay entranced
Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
In Vallombrosa where the Etrurian shades,
High over-arched, embower."

Wordsworth, by the way, when he visited Vallombrosa with Crabb Robinson
in 1837, wrote an inferior poem there, in a rather common metre,
in honour of Milton's association with it.

[7] 27 April, 1859, the day that the war with Austria was proclaimed.

[8] In "A Dictionary of Saintly Women".

[9] The position of easel pictures in the Florentine galleries often
changes.

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