...and as such officially entitled to form a troop of actors. Of such companies there were thirteen at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The Queen herself, who was exceedingly fond of theatrical entertainments, maintained four such troops...

...elle ne s'y rencontre pas." The first authentic account of syphilis is given by medical writers about the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. These writers, who were familiar with the chancroidal ulcer, describe syphilis as the morbus Gallicus...

...Michelet, France attained this self-consciousness in her contact with the Italy of the Renaissance towards the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the case of Scotland this stage was reached in the conflict of the old and the new religions towards...

...that he carried out work at Paisley. There are no buildings at Melrose later than those erected at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, and as there is no parallel, in that fair shrine, to the debased art-work at Paisley, of the middle...

...a few favored and golden ages of the world to conceive and to express pure beauty of form. Such was the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. How were it possible here to give the faintest outline of the entire devotion to art, of the fervid...

...was, as Mr. Stephens says, "a great service to the cause of humanity." It was a service rendered at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, which we, at the end of the nineteenth, with its shameful record of the degenerate Turk's atrocities,...

...deception, and to become wonderful -adepts at that objectionable game. Machiavelli, a statesman who lived at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, whose name has become a proverb for craft and duplicity, wrote a book called " The Prince," in which...

...and emotions more akin to our own, with quicker suggestions of freshness and joyThen it was already the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, and even the Sienese could no longer be satisfied with the few painters who remained in their midst....

...beautiful college in Oxford. The Warden's lodgings on the E. side of the front quadrangle, date from the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. MERTON COLLEGE has the honour of being the oldest in Oxford ; though University and Balliol may be...

...Church ; and in the fourteenth century the best organ builders of the world were resident at Vienna. By the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century a high degree of perfection had been attained, especially during the reign of Maximilian I. At the...