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Period: Sep 29, 1547 to
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel. He was influenced by Desiderius Erasmus, Virgil and Homer. -
Period: Feb 15, 1565 to
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer and polymath. He was born in Pisa. His discoveries about the Moon, Jupiter's moons, Venus, and sunspots supported the idea that the Sun - not the Earth - was the center of the Universe, as was commonly believed at the time. Galileo's work laid the foundation for today's modern space probes and telescopes. -
Hamlet (Sakespeare)
In the book, the ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. -
L'Orfeo
It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world. L'Orfeo, written within a decade of the very beginning of the history of opera, is generally considered the first great masterpiece of the genre. Together with the Vespers of 1610, it is one of the monumental achievements of Monteverdi -
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Thirty Year's War
The Thirty Years War began as a religious war, fought between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Germany. It developed into a political struggle between the Catholic Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire (Austria, most of the German princes and occasionally Spain). The main winners of the Thirty Years' War were France, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden. The Habsburgs were greatly weakened. Spain never claimed the same level of power it had before the war. -
Las Meninas by Velázquez
It is a painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It is one of Velázquez's largest works and in which he put the greatest effort to create a composition that was both complex and credible, which transmitted the sensation of life and reality, and at the same time contained a dense network of meanings. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. His most famous piece of music was "Mass in B Minor" which he completed in 1749. -
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
It is a group of four violin concerti, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Each of his four concertos included three movements inspired by the four seasons. Those three movements within the four concertos followed a fast-slow-fast pattern meant to remind the listener of the cyclical pattern of nature. These were composed when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua.