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    soot. The Renaissance architect and scholar Leon Battista Alberti wrote in 1452 that churches should be plastered white on the inside, since white was the...
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    romance,Le Livre du cœur d'amour épris (about 1460) Gutenberg Bible (1451–1452). Black ink was used for printing books, because it provided the greatest...
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    Carmelite history have survived. The order of Carmelite nuns was formalised in 1452. The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel are...
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    England featured an automata angel. In Renaissance Italy, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) sketched plans for a humanoid robot around 1495. Da Vinci's notebooks...
    146 KB (14,568 words) - 23:44, 13 April 2024
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    Radcliffe (b. 1945), 85th Master of the Order of Preachers Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Italian orator, de facto ruler of Florentine Republic after the overthrow...
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    the noble Portuguese Amadeo, who entered the Franciscan order at Assisi in 1452, gathered around him a number of adherents to his fairly strict principles...
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    Province of Bavaria. In 1438, he was elected a province inspector and in 1452 as vicar general assisted the prior general during the Provincial Chapter...
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