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| 1545 |
| | | A council of the Roman Catholic church is convened in Trent, to establish the tenets of the Counter-Reformation | |
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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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| 1571 |
| | | Spanish and Venetian galleys defeat the Turks in the battle of Lepanto | |
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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
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| 1597 |
| | | Dafne is performed in Florence, becoming the first example of a new art form - opera | |
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