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3 09, 2017

Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome

By |2019-11-03T18:03:15-08:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome

Latin literature: A Roman papyrus scroll from a library of Epicurean philosophy (Herculaneum, Italy) Where did Latin come from? The Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was [...]

7 08, 2017

Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince – Florence

By |2019-11-21T09:20:53-08:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Philosophy|Comments Off on Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince – Florence

Niccolo Machiavelli When did Machiavelli live? Around 1500 AD, Machiavelli was working for the government in the city-state of Florence. Florence was smack in the middle of the Renaissance, which meant that everybody [...]

6 08, 2017

European writing – books, poetry, Bibles

By |2018-04-11T18:19:12-07:00August 6th, 2017|History, Modern Europe|Comments Off on European writing – books, poetry, Bibles

Reproduction of a press from Gutenberg's time The invention of the European printing press with moveable type in northern Europe in the late 1400s AD was no accident: publishers had set out to find [...]

3 08, 2017

Boccaccio – Decameron – Medieval literature

By |2020-04-21T06:25:16-07:00August 3rd, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on Boccaccio – Decameron – Medieval literature

Florence, Italy Who was Boccaccio? Most of the people who knew how to write in the early Middle Ages were monks. So most of them wrote about serious things like God and [...]

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