... , however a number of its expressive traits were received as traditions of vernacular style and substance. This is noticeable in works of the gathering of sixteenth-century French artists known as La Pléade, and it proceeds with directly through to the plays of William Shakespeare (1564 "1616) toward the start of the seventeenth century. In craftsmanship established subjects and ... classicism corresponded to a general shift away from the authority of the ancients and toward a greater emphasis on human reason and sense perception, as articulated most strongly in the Discours de la méth...

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... , Alexander V. On his first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus was accompanied by a group of Franciscans. The first convents in America were established by Franciscans, at Santo Domingo and La Vega in what is now the Dominican Republic. The rapid conversion of the Native Americans and the consequent enthusiasm of the missionary-minded in Spain led to the further spread ... ...

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