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21 08, 2017

What is baptism? – History of Christianity

By |2019-02-10T06:06:07-08:00August 21st, 2017|History, Religion, Romans|1 Comment

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 [...]

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 [...]

4 08, 2017

Raphael – Biography – Renaissance art

By |2018-04-23T09:44:15-07:00August 4th, 2017|Art, Modern Europe|Comments Off on 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 [...]

3 08, 2017

Dante Alighieri – Inferno – Middle Ages

By |2018-10-02T07:17:25-07:00August 3rd, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on 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, [...]

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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