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Christopher Colombus was born between 25th August and 31st October in 1451 and died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506. The origin of Columbus is disputed and many areas claim its origin. He was probably born in Genoa, but some claim that he came from either the Spanish Aragon, Galicia, or Portugal.
He was a Spanish explorer who went to America when he was trying to find the East Indies or Asia. His discovery marked the beginning of an era of exploration and expansion of European powers throughout America and the world.

After years of preparation for his first voyage, Columbus did approach – and was turned down by – the kings of Portugal, France, and England for funding, which is probably how this myth originated. In the end, Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to finance his journey.

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.

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Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle

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A funny song on Columbus' plea to Queen Isabella.

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A funny song on Columbus' plea to Queen Isabella.

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Columbus ("Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's)

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Watch the following, funny presentation of the Renaissance Period.

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Watch the following, funny presentation of the Renaissance Period.

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Renaissance Man - HD VERSION ("Blister In the Sun" by the Violent Femmes)

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Michelangelo Biography: Who Was This Guy, Really? | Art History Lesson

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Do You Know why the Sistine Chapel was Artrageous? | Art History Lesson

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The many meanings of Michelangelo's Statue of David - James Earle

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"Why Is This Woman So Famous?" — Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

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Henry Tudor was born in Greenwich Kent in England in June 28 1491 and died in January 28 1547. Henry Tudor was the King of England. He became the King after his elder brother, Prince Arthur died in 1502 and succeeded him in 1509.

Yiannis Sotiriou

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Valia Skivalaki

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Valia Skivalaki

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Valia Skivalaki

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Valia Skivalaki

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Valia Skivalaki

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The Medici Family ("Voices Carry" by ʻTil Tuesday)

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Hernán Cortés was born in Medellin, Spain to a family of lesser nobility. Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World.

He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba where he received an encomienda (a Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of conquered non-Christian people).

For a short time, he served as magistrate of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mailand which he partly funded. His enmity with the Governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an order which Cortés ignored.

Stavros Sklavounos

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Desiderious Erasmus was born on the 28th October 1466 and died on the 12th July 1536.  He was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. As a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship. Among humanists, he enjoyed the sopriquet "Prince of the Humanists"and has been called the crowning glory of the Christian humanism.

Stavros Sklavounos

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Herman Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico, under the rule of the king of Castile in the early 16th century.

He was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americans. Arriving on the continent, Cortes executed a successful strategy of allying with some indigenous people against others.

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521. The Aztecs empire reached its maximal extent in 1519 just prior to the arrival of a small group of Spanish conquistadors led by Cortes.

Cortes allied with city states opposed to the Mexica and conquered them. After that the Spanish founed Mexico city. From there they proceeded with the process of conquest of other tribes and established the Spanish empire.

With the destruction of the Aztec empire in 1521 the Spanish utilized the city states on which the Aztec empire had been built. The nobles pledged loyalty to the Spanish crown and in return they were recognized as nobles by the Spanish crown.

After overthrοwing the Aztec Empire,  he returns to Spain in 1541 where he died six years later of natural causes.

It is difficult to describe his personality or motivations due to lack of reliable sources of information about him. The descriptions of Cortes tend to be simplistic and either damning or idealizing.

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Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Using humanist techniques for working on texts he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the “New Testament” which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant and Catholic Counter Reformation.

He wrote both on church subjects and those of general human interest.

Erasmus lived against the backdrop of the growing European religious Reformation. He remained a member of the Catholic Church all his life, remaining committed to reforming the church and its Clerics’ abuses within.

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Martin Luther was born on the 10th of November 1483 in Eisleben, Saxony. He came from a poor family and he died on the 18th of February 1546.

Ιn 1501, with the financial support of a wealthy widow, he enrolled at the University of Erfurt and studied philosophy. At the request of his father, in May 1505, he began to study law. But two months later, he renounced the world and became a monk at the Augustine Hermitage monastery in Erfurt.

In the monastery Luther attended theological classes and, in 1507, he was ordained a priest. He then continued his theological studies at the University of Wittenberg.

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Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings.

Henry did not originally set out to reform the Roman-Catholic church, but when he was not granted what he wanted, nothing could stand in his way. Henry wanted to divorce Catherine, so he asked the pope for a divorce. The pope disapproved the divorce because the Catholic church doesn’t support divorce. Henry ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury for the divorce. Fortunately for Henry, the Archbishop granted the divorce, which broke all ties with the Catholic church.

Henry deemed himself the head of his new church, the Church of England. Many of his people were happy with this change because the rules of the new church meant  that they no longer had to pay the church for weddings, baptisms, and funerals. Most wealthy Catholics were supporters of the Pope and were a threat to Henry.

The separation from the Roman-Catholic Church had an impactful change on England in many different ways.

Chryssa Fragiadaki

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Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovani Boccaccio is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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Valia Skivalaki

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I am the music man: Renaissance music at Edinburgh Castle

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Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”? - Sheila Marie Orfano

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The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de’ Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.

The family originated in the Mugello region of Tuscany, and prospered gradually until it was able to fund the Medici bank. This bank was the largest in Europe during the 15th century, and it facilitated the Medici’s rise to political power in Florence although they officially remained citizens rather than monarchs until the 16th century.

Marios Fragiadakis

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The Medici family was of the most powerful and influential groups in European history for hundred of years. They innovated new banking systems and ruled the city of Florence. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism. The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers.

Zaxarenia Ntagkinh

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William Shakespeare was born on 26th April  1564 and died on  23rd  April 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

William Shakespeare was the best British writer of all times. Some of his many works are about life (revenge, death, mystery…).  William Shakespeare's work is still relevant today because his themes are timeless.

Yiannis Sotiriou

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The Divine Comedy - a modern presentation in a song.

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The Divine Comedy - a modern presentation in a song.

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The Divine Comedy - HD VERSION ("Rapture" by Blondie)

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Johannes Gutenberg was born in the 14th Century in Germany and died in Mainz, Germany in 1468.

He was a German goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press.

His work started the Printing Revolution in Europe and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history.

Zaxarenia Ntagkinh

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born on the 19th of February in 1473 in the city of Thorn, Poland. He died at the age of 70 on the 24th of May in 1543.Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and a Catholic canon.

Manos Pachakis

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Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was born on the 15th of February in 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He died at the age of 77 on the 8th of January in 1642.  He was the first of the six children of Vincenzo Galilei. Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer sometimes he was described as a polymath.

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Gutenberg - HD VERSION ("Sunday Girl" by Blondie)

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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23rd April, which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period.

Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. His poems also remain popular to this day.  Shakespeare's works include 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, 154 sonnets, and a variety of other poems.

No original manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays are known to exist today. It is actually thanks to a group of actors from Shakespeare's company that we have about half of the plays at all. They collected them for publication after Shakespeare died, preserving the plays.

Frida Benetou

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In March 1521, Luther was summoned before the Diet of Worms, a general assembly of secular authorities. Again, Luther refused to recant his statements, demanding to be shown any scripture that would refute his position. There was none.

On May 8, 1521, the council released the Edict of Worms, banning Luther’s writings and declaring him a “convicted heretic.” This made him a condemned and wanted man. Friends helped him hide out at the Wartburg Castle.

While in seclusion, he translated the New Testament into the German language, to give ordinary people the opportunity to read God’s word.

Luther died following a stroke on February 18, 1546, at the age of 62 during a trip to his hometown of Eisleben. He was buried in All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, the city he had helped turn into an intellectual center.

Luther's teachings and translations radically changed Christian theology. Thanks in large part to the Gutenberg press, his influence continued to grow after his death, as his message spread across Europe and around the world.

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino known as Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.

He was  born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy. At the time, Urbino was a cultural center that encouraged the Arts. Raphael’s father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter for the Duke of Urbino. Giovanni taught the young Raphael basic painting techniques and exposed him to the principles of humanistic philosophy at the Duke of Urbino’s court. After his father’s death, when he was 11 years old, Raphael took over the intimidating task of managing his father’s workshop. His success in this role quickly surpassed his father’s; Raphael was soon considered one of the finest painters in town. As a teen, he was even commissioned to paint for the Church of San Nicola in the neighboring town of Castello.

Frida Benetou

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A Fun, Animated History of the Reformation and the Man Who Started It All | Short Film Showcase

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I have made a video especially for you on Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, sung by David Gilmour (the voice and guitar of the Pink Floyd). I hope you enjoy it!

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 sung by David Gilmour

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Thomas More was a politician, a writer, a devote Catholic and also a Christian humanist.

More became a lawyer and in 1504 he entered the Parliament. In 1510 he began representing London. He also was a secretary and personal adviser to King Henry VIII. In 1525 More became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and he had executive and judicial responsibilities for northern England. In 1529 he was named the Lord Chancellor of London and was the first layman to hold this position.

As a writer More is best known for his book Utopia, published in 1516 and from it he was known as ‘the father of the Utopian novel’. He helped spread Christian humanism by default Reformation throughout Europe.

More,  altered the world greatly during his time, and for future generation he became an example for others, and an archetype in many fields. In addition, he gave many politicians at that time the courage to stand against Henry VIII's decision to disobey the Pope.

Manos Pachakis

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Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue

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Why should you read Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? - Iseult Gillespie

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A Midsummer Night's Dream ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by the Beatles)

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Galileo Galilei discovered many things:

With his telescope, he first saw the moons of Jupiter and the mountains on the Moon.

He determined the parabolic path of projectiles and calculated the law of free fall on the basis of experiment.

He is known for defending and making popular the Copernican system.

He used the telescope to examine the heavens.

He  invented the microscope.

By dropping stones from towers and masts, playing with pendula and clocks, he became the first ‘real’ experimental scientist, advocating the relativity of motion, and creating a mathematical physics.

Zaxarenia Ntagkinh

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"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet 2013 720p BluRay x264 YIFY

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Galileo Galilei  studied speed, velocity, gravity, free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of pendelums and "hydrostatic balances". He invented the thermoscope and various military compasses. He used the telescopes for scientific observations of celestial objects. His contributions to observational astronomy include telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, observation of thefour largest satellites of Jupiter, observation of Saturns's rings, and analysis of sunspots.

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Raffaello, Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, form the traditional trinity of great masters of the Renaissance.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking.

After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

Manos Lapidis

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Alexander Kanavakis

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of Renaissance, mainly for church music and the most famous representative from the 16th century.

He was the most representative of the polyphonic music and the one who exerted the greatest and most important influence on the formation of western church music. He left a huge volume of work, which is a reference point to the vocal art.

Palestrina was born in the same name town: “Palestrina”, close to Rome, where his ancestors are believed to have lived for ages. The exact age of his birth isn’t correct, but we suppose in February 1525 or 1526. He died in Rome on 2nd February in 1594.

Palestrina composed hundreds of compositions, including 105 liturgies, 250 motets, 45 hymns, 33 magnificates, eight groups of "mourners", 68 "offerings" psalms, about 140 madrigals and nine compositions for church organ. His compositions present clarity, balance between voices and absolute harmony. His compositions are all in “a cappella” style and for combinations of three to eight voices.

Alexander Kanavakis

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Kyrie - Missa Papae Marcelli - Palestrina

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Copernicus formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun rather than earth at its center. The publication of Copernicus model in his book '' On the Revolutions of the Celestrial Spheres'' just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientfic Revolution. The immediate result of the 1543 publication of his book was mild controversy. It was not until six decades after the publication that the Catholic Church took any official action against it. Catholic side opposition only commenced seventy-three years later when it was occasioned by Galileo. Altough he was well known for his theory of the universe, he also worked on Economics, mathematics and medicine.

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Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer and catholic priest. He is considered one of the most important composers of the west music and his work signs the transition from the Renaissance to Baroque’s period.

He was one of the most important reformers in the evolution of the music. He composed one of the first operas in the history of music.

He was born in Cremona in 1567 and he died in Venice in 1643. Monteverdi used more instruments in his operas for descriptive purposes. With the use of ornaments, he released the rigidity of the recitative and adopted vocal mechanisms. He presented his era with realism and for that he could be compared with Shakespeare.

Monteverdi was one of the first to use the tremolo technique on the strings, an expressive medium that has been established since then and he also used the duets a lot.

Alexander Kanavakis

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Madrigals Book 7 (Symphonia-Tempro La Cetra) (Remastered)

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Galileo ("Life in a Northern Town" by Dream Academy)

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"Mona Lisa" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950). The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The song won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1950. (Wikipedia)

Valia Skivalaki

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Martin Luther | full movie in English | #martinLuther #jdschristmedia

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1492 Conquest Of Paradise 1992 1080p BluRay x264 YTS AG

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HISTORYASIA - MANKIND - THE PRINTING PRESS

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Valia Skivalaki

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Valia Skivalaki

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Johannes Gutenberg was known for the invention of the movable-type printing, he also was an inventor, a printer and a engraver. Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors. Also, in 1455 Gutenberg completed his 42-line Bible, known as the Gutenberg Bible and there were about 180 copies printed.

Yiannis Sotiriou

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A Renaissance man is defined as a man with skills. Some of their characteristics were :
well-educated, self-taught, free thinker, analytical, multilingual, well-read, sociable, sportsman, brave, handsome, well-dressed, charismatic, gentleman, artistic, cultured, well-travelled, explorer, inventor, entrepreneurial, effortless, humble.

Michael Papadakis

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Adriano Banchieri was born on the 3rd of September 1568 in Bologna. He was an Italian composer, music theorist and poet. He founded the Accademi dei Floridi in Bologna, which was visited by Claudio Monteverdi in 1620 and in his honor in June the Accademia held a gathering, which was attended by many prominent members. Adriano Banchieri was one of the pioneers who tried to combine madrigal* with the creation of a new species, the musical comedy.

*(Madrigal is a kind of secular, polyphonic, vocal music that blossomed during the Renaissance)

Aris Stathoglou

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Alexander Kanavakis

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Renaissance Music in a Castle. Ancient Music in the Loire Valley.