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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820020303321

Autore

D'Elia Anthony F. <1967->

Titolo

A sudden terror : the plot to murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome / / Anthony F. D'Elia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05372-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

945/.63205092

Soggetti

Conspiracies - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500

Humanists - Italy - Rome

Papacy - History - 1447-1565

Humanism - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500

Renaissance - Italy - Rome

Rome (Italy) History 1420-1798

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Carnival to Lent -- 2. The Price of Magnificence -- 3. Lessons of Rebellions Past -- 4. A Pagan Renaissance: Sodomy and the Classical Tradition -- 5. Consorting with the Enemy: Mehmet II and the Ottoman Threat -- 6. The Emperor's Tomb -- 7. Humanism Imprisoned -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

D'Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks.