...Geschichte und Wiirdigung der Inquisition. [Cardinal Ximenes and the Ecclesiastical State of Spain at the Close of the Fifteenth and the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century ; containing special Reference to the History of the Inquisition.] By Dr. HEFELB, Ordinary Professor...

...resolve themselves into one cause — bad government. The valour, the intelligence, the energy, which at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century made the Spaniards the first nation in the world, were the fruits of the old institutions of Castile...

...destruction, first became formidable. The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, was zealously encouraged by the heads of that very church, to which liberal studies were destined to...

...; and Bembo has celebrated them in those historical pages which add lustre to the glory of Venice. At the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe saw, in those parts of the New World discovered by Columbus, Ojeda, Vespucci, and Kodrigo de...

...bulls; and Bembo has celebrated them in those historical pages which add lustre to the glory of Venice. At the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe saw, in those parts of the New World discovered by Columbus, Ojeda, Vespucci, and Eodrigo de...

...barbarous. " The first instance to which I refer, is the great revival of letters among the Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time almost every thing that was worth reading was contained in the writings of the ancient...

...also pp. 9, 10, 46, 53. to whom Spain owes so large a debt of gratitude.* The Castilian scholars of the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, may take rank with their illustrious contemporaries of Italy. They could not indeed achieve such brilliant...

...controversy between Denmark and Germany. Again, however, the Union of Calmar fell into abeyance ; and at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, John and Christian II., the successors of Christian I., were engaged in a struggle for the maintenance...

...under restrictions and conditions, which confined them almost exclusively to the regents only. Towards the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, printed books had become so greatly multiplied, and their prices so much reduced, as to be placed within...

...whom he at that time appears to have intended for his historian. The same hostility to manuscripts, as may be easily imagined, has occurred, perhaps more...seven times; we have positive evidence that the * It ia now about twenty-seven years ago Rince I first pub* liahed this anecdote ; at the same time I received...