Given the abundance of books on Henry V (several of recent vintage and in connection with Agincourt's
sexcentenary), one could reasonably ask if yet another study is warranted.
I was reminded, dawdling through Cambridge on a rainy afternoon, that the undergraduate society at the oldest college, Peterhouse, calls itself "The Sex Club" in honour of the college's
sexcentenary in 1884.
(28) Shastry, Goa-Kanara Portuguese Relations, 150-8; Shastry, Keladiya Arasaru Hagoo Portuguesaru, 50-6; Swaminathan, The Nayakas of Ikkeri, 71; Chitnis, Keladi Polity, 188; Lakshminarayan Rao, "The Nayakas of Keladi," in Vijayanagara
Sexcentenary Commemoration Volume (Dharwar: Karnataka Historical Research Society, 1936), 262.
'Shipping news: Zheng He's
sexcentenary' in China Heritage Newsletter, No.
Dante's
sexcentenary celebration in 1991 raised themes which the Fascist Party would develop soon after.
(7) Statesmen from countries far from Chinese shores hailed his accomplishments in 2005, the
sexcentenary year of his inaugural cruise to the Indian Ocean.
Indeed, judging by recent publications, Pisanello's art is definitely "in." The Paris exhibition of 1996, organized by Dominique Cordellier to celebrate the
sexcentenary of the terminus ante quem of 1395 -- since revised to 1394 -- of the artist's date of birth, was huge and included an equally comprehensive catalogue, followed by the two-volume Acts of the accompanying Symposium.
This additional exile continued for nearly two centuries; the bones were rediscovered, scientifically examined, and returned to their original location in 1865 during the
sexcentenary commemoration of the poet's birth.
Published in 1996 to coincide with the
sexcentenary of the death of the distinguished fourteenth-century Aragonese scholar, Juan Fernandez de Heredia, who took up various diplomatic posts in the Iberian Peninsula, Avignon, and Rhodes, the work provides a wealth of information from outstanding scholars for specialists in this field.
