Visit Italy with kids! Sights to see
Visit Italy with Kids: Leaning Tower of Pisa Will people welcome my kids? They sure will! Visiting Italy with kids is a blast, because many Italians are very friendly to [...]
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What is baptism? – History of Christianity
Torchlight parade (this one is actually in India) Baptism before Christianity Even before the time of Jesus, many mystery religions of the ancient Mediterranean had some sort of ceremony that people had to do in [...]
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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 [...]
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Peter Paul Rubens – European art history
Rubens (self-portrait), 1620 AD Peter Paul Rubens was born in Germany in 1577. At that time, the Holy Roman Emperors were weak and there were a bunch of civil wars going on. His [...]
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Raphael – Biography – Renaissance art
Raphael's early selfie as a teenager Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci were the four greatest painters of the Renaissance in Italy. Raphael was born in 1483, when Michelangelo was eight years old and Leonardo was already grown up; Titian [...]
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Michelangelo – Renaissance art
The artist Michelangelo's David When did Michelangelo live? Not long after Leonardo da Vinci started working, in 1475 AD, a new artist was born in northern Italy. His name was [...]
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Leonardo da Vinci Biography
Th Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist - a self-portrait Leonardo was home-schooled The artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci was born near Florence, in Italy, in 1452 AD. His father was a [...]
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Thomas Aquinas – Dominican monk
Naples, with Mount Vesuvius in the background Like Ibn Rushd and Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas was a great thinke who tried to figure out the relationship between science and religion. But unlike Ibn Rushd [...]
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Dante Alighieri – Inferno – Middle Ages
Dante Alighieri, painted by Giotto about 1320 AD Dante wrote in Italian, not Latin Since the time of the Romans, writers who lived in Italy had always written in Latin. Virgil wrote in Latin, Ovid wrote in Latin, [...]
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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 [...]
