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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20080106
Author:Mark Sanderson

It is 500 years since Michelangelo started to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - and since William Dunbar published The Golden Targe. In this allegory the Scottish poet, imagining himself on trial at the court of Venus, is wounded by the arrows

of Beauty in spite of the shield (targe) of Reason. Some things never change. Fifty years later, in 1558, dramatist Thomas Kyd, now best known for his Spanish Tragedy, was born on 6 November and

John Knox released The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. The title is the best part of the treatise.

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