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Antiquity
Av Bartolomeo Platina, Anthony F. D'Elia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
306 kr
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Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head of the Vatican Library. A papal official under the humanist Pope Pius II, he was a member of the humanist academies of Cardinal Bessarion …
Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2005
781 kr
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Weddings in fifteenth-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs that often required guests to listen attentively to lengthy orations given in Latin. In this book, Anthony D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority …
Sudden Terror
The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning—conspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Twenty humanist …
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World
Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance
Inbunden, 2016
494 kr
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In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several …
