...any claim to exhaustiveness, we have decided to concentrate our attention within a limited period, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth. There are two reasons for this choice. As appeared extremely clear to contemporaries,...

...epidemics, or struggles for power between the various classes. In this perspective, the period running from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century offers a particularly interesting field of enquiry, if one takes into account the radical transformations...

...campaign against the Turks, in which the armies of the German Emperors invaded the Hungarian plains, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth, a form of fever prevailed among the troops so unlike the ordinary European fevers that it has always...

...An official of the Section told me that its object is to give a bird's-eye view of the English Drama from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. I saw there illuminated models of stage settings during that period, beginning with one...

...Period embraces the literature of Spain from the accession of the Austrian family to its extinction, or from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, about two centuries. The preceding period had brought to light the germ of Spanish culture,...