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1528 to 1528 opens onto 1 life, 1 place story, and 1 named historical windows.
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Renaissance
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
14 lives visible here
13 place stories active in the same years
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1528 CE to 1528 CE
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1528 - Nuremberg
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I am fifty-six years old and the body has been in decline since Zeeland, since the marsh air and the whale I did not properly see and the fever or corruption I brought back with me as if a journey could not be counted complete without some residue clinging to it.
1528 to 1528 across the atlas
1528 - Nuremberg
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1528 - Nuremberg
Albrecht Dürer stands at 1528 - Nuremberg, with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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6 explainable routes
1536 - Tower of London
Humiliation, surveillance, and spectacle turning against its former master.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In the Tower of London, waiting for a verdict she already knows, a queen sets down what Henry will never allow to be read.
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1852 - London
science-and-discovery
A contrasting life shaped by science and discovery.
In London, with her body failing, the woman who saw the potential of computing before anyone else sets down what the numbers meant.
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1521 - Cebu
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Having carried Castile across the ocean he named, a navigator feels command slipping and writes what the voyage actually cost.
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1524 - Cochin
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Broken by fever in Cochin, the man who found the sea route to India confronts what the Estado became in other men's hands.
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1526 - Outside Florence
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At his farm outside Florence, where exile has thinned his patience, the author of The Prince writes what power actually looks like when you no longer have any.
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1519 - Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
The right hand has ceased from certain offices, not from the design entire, and I begin there because it is necessary to place the matter correctly from the first line.
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1536 - Tower of London
Humiliation, surveillance, and spectacle turning against its former master.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In the Tower of London, waiting for a verdict she already knows, a queen sets down what Henry will never allow to be read.
Open this life
1852 - London
science-and-discovery
A contrasting life shaped by science and discovery.
In London, with her body failing, the woman who saw the potential of computing before anyone else sets down what the numbers meant.
Open this life
1521 - Cebu
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Having carried Castile across the ocean he named, a navigator feels command slipping and writes what the voyage actually cost.
Open this life
1524 - Cochin
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Broken by fever in Cochin, the man who found the sea route to India confronts what the Estado became in other men's hands.
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