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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: '''Christine de Pizan''' (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poe...
5: ...] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...termined her to have recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
11: Her first ballads were written to the memory of her husband, and as love poems...
19: ...' (1412-1413), but after the disasters of the [[battle of Agincourt|campaign of Agincourt]] and subseq... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
7: ...ellow-Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of V...
11: ...]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ''Filocolo'' a prose ver...
13: ...gorical poem ''Amorosa visione'' in 1342, ''Fiammetta'' in 1343 and probably the pastoral piece ''Ninf...
17: ...misogynist ''Corbaccio'' (dated to either 1355 or 1365). Boccaccio revised and rewrote the ''Decameron''...
23: ...not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365 and travelled to Naples and then on to Padua and ... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
12: ...edge. Another ruler, called the ''alidade'', is attached to the back face. When the astrolabe is hel...
16: ...mathematical background was established by [[Al-Battani]] in his treatise ''Kitab az-Zij'' (ca. 920), ...
20: ...the French instrument-maker [[Jean Fusoris]] (ca. 1365 - 1436) started selling astrolabes in his shop in...
40: *[http://www.astrolabes.org The Astrolabe] - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
9: ...e area. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers weari...
23: ...s conducted by the Knights. Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta, May 8, 2005.]]
27: ...amed in memory of its valiant grand master La Valette who had sustained this siege.
29: ...e, however, had little political impact, for the Ottomans quickly rebuilt their fleet.
31: ... the victory at Lepanto the Knights continued to attack pirates, and their base became a centre for [[... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
8: Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria, little is positively known. According to some traditio...
15: ...the Anatolian cities; but no archaeological or written records show this. The trade consisted in metal...
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21: ... to the northwest, mainly at the expense of the Hittites, reaching as far as [[Carchemish]]. His son ...
25: ...-ishi defeated Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon in a battle when their forces encountered one another in th...
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