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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8

The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation
Author: Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson
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BINDING Vol. VIII

The binding of this volume is a facsimile of the original in the British
Museum, and is considered the most artistic mosaic binding design in
existence.

It was executed about 1710, by Antoine Michel Padeloup, Royal Binder of

both France and Portugal.

He presented it to Francoise Marie de Bourbon, daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, on the anniversary of her marriage to Philippe, Duke of Orleans, who afterward became Regent of France.

During the Reign of Terror this volume found its way to England, where it was sold at a handsome price. It was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade, Esq.

THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS

A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS

NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL

ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES,

BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
_With a staff of specialists
VOLUME VIII
The National Alumni_
1905

CONTENTS

VOLUME VIII

_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_ CHARLES F. HORNE
_Origin and Progress of Printing (A.D. 1438)_ HENRY GEORGE BOHN
_John Hunyady Repulses the Turks (A.D. 1440-1456)_ ARMINIUS VAMBERY
_Rebuilding of Rome by Nicholas V, the "Builder-pope_" _(A.D. 1447-1455)_

MRS. MARGARET OLIPHANT

_Mahomet II Takes Constantinople (A.D. 1453)_ _End of the Eastern Empire_

GEORGE FINLAY

_Wars of the Roses (A.D. 1455-1485)_ _Death of Richard III at Bosworth_

DAVID HUME

_Ivan the Great Unites Russia and Breaks the Tartar_ _Yoke (A.D.

1462-1505)_ ROBERT BELL

_Culmination of the Power of Burgundy_ _Treaty of P ronne (A.D. 1468)_

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P.F. WILLERT

_Lorenzo de'Medici Rules in Florence_ _Zenith of Florentine Glory (A.D.

1469)_ OLIPHANT SMEATON

_Death of Charles the Bold (A.D. 1477) Louis XI Unites Burgundy with

the Crown of France_ PHILIPPE DE COMINES

_Inquisition Established in Spain (A.D.1480),_ WILLIAM H. RULE JAMES

BALMES
_Murder of the Princes in the Tower (A.D.1483)_ JAMES GAIRDNER
_Conquest of Granada_ (A.D.1490) WASHINGTON IRVING
_Columbus Discovers America_ (A.D.1492) CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS FERDINAND

COLUMBUS

_Conspiracy, Rebellion, and Execution of Perkin Warbeck_ (A.D.1492)

FRANCIS BACON

_Savonarola's Reforms and Death_ The French Invade Italy_ (A.D.1494)

PASQUALE VILLARI JEAN C. L. SISMONDI

_Discovery of the Mainland of North America by the Cabots_ (A.D.1497)

SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSO

_The Sea Route to India Vasco da Gama Sails around Africa_ (A.D.1498)

GASPAR CORREA
_Columbus Discovers South America (A.D.1498)_ CLEMENTS ROBERT MARKHAM
_Establishment of Swiss Independence (A.D.1499)_ HEINRICH ZSCHOKKE
_Amerigo Vespucci in America (A.D.1499)_ AMERIGO VESPUCCI
_Rise and Fall of the Borgias (A.D.1502)_ NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
_Painting of the Sistine Chapel (A.D.1508)_ _The Splendor of Renaissance

Art under Michelangelo_ CHARLES CLEMENT
_Balboa Discovers the Pacific (A.D.1513)_ MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA
_Universal Chronology (A.D.1438-1516)_ JOHN RUDD
ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME VIII
_Murder of the princes, sons of King Edward IV, in _the Tower of London

(page 194)1_ Painting by Otto Seitz.

_Facsimile of a page from Caxton's_ Recuyell of the Historyes of

Troye--_the first book printed in the English language_

_Louis XI at his devotions in the castle of P ronne while held a prisoner

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by Charles the Bold_ Painting by Hermann Kaulbach.

_Pope Sixties V and the Grand Inquisitor_ Painting by Jean Paul Laurens.