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| 1560 |
| | A book to teach good handwriting is published by Gianfrancesco Cresci, with examples engraved on copper plates | |
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| c. 1570 |
| | Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura ('The Four Books of Architecture'), which include his influential designs for villas | |
| | Villa Malcontenta, Venice Photograph John Julius Norwich
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| 1570 |
| | Pope Pius V excommunicates the English queen, Elizabeth I, causing a severe crisis of loyalty for her Catholic subjects | |
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| 1571 |
| | Spanish and Venetian galleys defeat the Turks in the battle of Lepanto | |
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| 1573 |
| | Venice cedes the island of Cyprus to the Turks, in spite of the Christian victory at Lepanto two years earlier | |
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| c. 1575 |
| | Soft-paste porcelain, in imitation of true porcelain from China, is successfully created for the Medici in Florence | |
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| 1581 |
| | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| 1582 |
| | The new and more accurate Gregorian calendar is introduced by Gregory XIII in the papal states | |
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| 1587 |
| | Venice opens the first modern bank (the Banco della Piazza di Rialto) for safe deposits and credit transfers | |
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| 1590 |
| | The dome of St Peter's is finished, completing nearly a century of construction on Europe's largest church | |
| | St.Peter's Fotofile CG
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