Anthony Santagato's List: Global History

• Old Europe was ready to roll with this 6,000 yr old axe. Neolithic peoples should never be underestimated... - Anthony Santagato on 2010-08-18

• If Suleiman the Magnificent, the 16th Century Ottoman emperor, had had his way,  the road west would have led directly to Rome - the city that had been the hub  of the empire that had created Istanbul, or Constantinople, in the first place.

  • Suleiman wanted to continue the Byzantine tradition of associating and identifying with Rome. However, we have a reversal. When Contantine headed West and other Romans after they diffused Western Civilization Eastward. Suleiman was at this point in history prepared to diffuse and culturally influence the West. Goes against the normal Western world view of cultural diffusion.
• This contemporary of Michelangelo and Andrea Palladio, two of the most  influential Italian architects,

  • I knew Michelangelo to be a great painter and sculpture but not a builder or architect.
• but his work was also to influence that of the most ambitious architects of the  Italian Renaissance, as theirs was to affect his.
• Michelangelo's dome, soaring above the roof of St Peter's, Rome, was surely  influenced by those of Sinan's daring mosques in Istanbul.

  • Oh ok, this makes sense, although I was not aware that Michelangelo completed St Peter's Dome. Must have been before Brunlleschi's accomplished Dome in Florence because i don't recall Brunelleschi heading to Rome to see St Peters although he did check out ancient Dome design of the Parthenon.
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