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Who wrote the satire The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel?
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Who wrote The Praise of Folly?
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Where did the Reformation begin?
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Who wrote a collection of discourses that are an autobiography of his mind? He searched for a moral code that was centered on a human world.
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Who was the greatest dramatist in the English language?
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What was the name of his famous theater?
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What artist painted a series of introspective self-portraits, including a famous one in which he depicts himself as a Christ figure?
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What German artist painted The Isenheim Altarpiece?
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Whose painting of the Crucifixion depicts an intensely suffering Christ with a tortured body?
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Whose strikingly original northern Renaissance paintings are known for ambiguous, detailed, bizarre, and fantastic treatment of religious subjects?
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What is the title of his most famous piece, a triptych about the creation, fall, and damnation of the human race?
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What Counter-Reformation musician and composer of polyphony established the Roman Catholic ideal for the next few centuries?
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What is the name of the type of secular song for four or five voices composed with great care for the words of the poetic text?
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What is the term for a musical illustration of the written text?
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The sixteenth century was a high point in Spain's literary history. What was this era called?
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What Spanish dramatist is generally credited with almost single-handedly founding the Spanish national theater? He wrote 426 secular plays and 42 religious dramas.
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What form of fiction recounts the comic misadventures of a roguish hero who lives by his wits, often at the expense of those above him in society?
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What is the title of the first one?
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Who wrote King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet?
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What is the title of the great Spanish novel considered the prototype of the modern novel?







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