...due proportion. We know that this was the happy state of the great centres of Italian civilisation in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The princes of Florence of the house of the Medici were at the same time the princes of trade and finance....

...increased; or it may have been owing partly to the one, and partly to the other of those two circumstances. In the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, the greater part of Europe was approaching towards a more settled form of government than it had enjoyed...

...which it is found in the works of Otho Brunfelsius, and some other botanical authors, who wrote about the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The idea of this name originated from a fancied resemblance of the follicles or seeds to a swallow flying....

...towns in Europe the Latin ;. names given to some of them belong. But though the misfortunes of Italy in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries greatly diminished the commerce and manufactures of the cities of Lomhardy and Tuscany, those countries...

...witchcraft, although the want of the Justiciary records of that period leaves us in uncertainty. But in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, when such charges grew general over Europe, cases of the kind occurred very often in Scotland, and,...

...witchcraft, although the want of the justiciary records of that period leaves us in uncertainty. But in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, when such charges grew general over Europe, cases of the kind occurred very often in Scotland, and,...

...them multiplied by the press of Antoiue Verard, whose productions in Gothic characters appeared at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The manuscripts of Froissart were theu numerous, and copies existed in Germany, England, Rome, Switzerland,...

...reckoned among the most populous and best cultivated countries in Europe, though the troubles of Italy in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, greatly diminished their commerce and manufactures. The great trade of Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges,...

...foreign artists were engaged ; and we find that foreign artists chiefly were employed even in Spain in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and that in England the same course was followed during that period, and down even to a much later...

...witchcraft, although the want of the Justiciary records of that period leaves us in uncertainty. But in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, when such charges grew general over Europe, cases of the kind occurred very often in Scotland, and,...