Renaissance

1400–1699 CE

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"I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance"

"Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain."

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Al-Qa'im (Fatimid caliph)

Politics

1406–1459

"Jonathan M. Bloom: The Origins of Fatimid Αrt, Muqarnas, Vol. 3 , p. 20-38, Brill Publications, Leiden, Netherlands."

"I came from God. There is nothing more for me to do here! Send me back to God, from Whom I came!"

"Good intentions are useless in the absence of common-sense."

"Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis."

"To be crushed in the winepress of passion."

"The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer."

"Quha hes aneuch, of na mair hes he neid."

"I am coming; I am coming. It is just. But wait a little."

"There has been no greater artist in French verse, as there has been no greater poet; and the main part of the history of poetry in France is the record of a long forgetting of all that Villon found out for himself."

"The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul."

"Rhythmical music is that which is made by instruments which render the sound by touch."

🇮🇹Matteo Maria Boiardo

"The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers."

"In God is my being, my I, my strength, my bliss, my desire. But this I that I often call so...in truth I no longer know what the I is, or the Mine, or desire, or the good, or bliss."

"The Seven Books on the Art of War" at the Marxists Internet Archive"

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Frederick IV of Naples

1451–1504

"It seems to me that the Pope's son, the Cardinal, is not in a condition for me to give him my daughter to wife. Make a cardinal who can marry and take off the hat, and then I will give him my daughter."

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🇮🇹Christopher Columbus

Technology

1451–1506

"The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate."

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Richard III of England

Politics

1452–1485

"Website with contextual information from an "Exhibition at the Royal National Theatre, London" on Richard III's letters"

"Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty."

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

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🇮🇳Abdul Quddus Gangohi

Literature

1456–1537

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