EServer: Today In History: May 17

We know of 4 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on May 17:

Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, who painted The Birth of Venus), was born on this day in 1444. The model for Venus, sometimes waggishly called "Venus on the Half-Shell," was the sister of the man for whom our continent is named, Amerigo Vespucci.
Julius Wellhausen, the German biblical scholar, was born on this day in 1844. In his 1878 History of Israel, he first advanced the JEDP Hypothesis, claiming that the Pentateuch (i.e., the first five Old Testament. books) was a compilation of four earlier, literary sources.
On this day in 1824 in his London office, John Murray, Byron's publisher, ordered the manuscript of Byron's personal journal burned, despite the objection of Byron's friends John Cam Hobhouse and Tom Moore.
On this day in 1890, Leoncavallo's opera Cavaleria Rusticana was premiered in Rome. It is more famous for its melodic orchestral Intermezzo.

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		We know of 4 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on May 17: Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, who painted The Birth of Venus), was born on this day in 1444. The model for Venus, sometimes waggishly called "Venus on the Half-Shell," was the sister of the man for whom our continent is named, Amerigo Vespucci. Julius Wellhausen, the German biblical scholar, was born on this day in 1844. In his 1878 History of Israel, he first advanced the JEDP Hypothesis, claiming that the Pentateuch (i.e., the first five Old Testament. books) was a compilation of four earlier, literary sources. On this day in 1824 in his London office, John Murray, Byron's publisher, ordered the manuscript of Byron's personal journal burned, despite the objection of Byron's friends John Cam Hobhouse and Tom Moore. On this day in 1890, Leoncavallo's opera Cavaleria Rusticana was premiered in Rome. It is more famous for its melodic orchestral Intermezzo.