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From 1506 to 1626, it changed from the simple ground plan of a Greek cross, with four arms of equal length, as favored by Bramante and his arch-enemy Michelangelo, to the final form of Maderno’s Latin cross extended by a long nave, as demanded by the popes of the Counter-Reformation.
After publishing technology evolved from its scribbling-monks phase to its Gutenberg phase, a form of power once dominated by popes and other big shots was diffused, and the Reformation happened.
Here's what they've forgotten--Rembrandt, van Gogh, Spinoza, hydraulic engineering, silver skates, Boswell's education, (I was sure there'd be many a smartass remark about his law school days), treat, courage, uncle, rub, elm disease, those damned Spanish Hapsburgs, that crazy Protestant Reformation (the long hair, the beads, the--oh, wait, Woodstock again), the seizure of Sumatra, the wars with England and their possible connection to the death of Christopher Marlowe (who never got to see Gwyneth Paltrow naked, but might have if only he and she had been at Woodstock), and the nation's new maturity in 1952 when it took its place among other great nations as a member of the European Coal and Steel Commission.
The Counter Reformation burned him alive here in 1600 for his preposterous idea that the universe was infinite, with many more galaxies than ours.
The Black Legend originated in the sixteenth century during the Protestant Reformation, with the beginnings of a rejection of Catholicism and abhorrence of the political and military power of Spain.
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