1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911091892803321

Autore

Musto Ronald G

Titolo

Apocalypse in Rome : Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New Age / / Ronald G. Musto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9786613277060

9781283277068

1283277069

9780520928725

0520928725

9781597344715

1597344710

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 436 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

945/.63205/092

B

Soggetti

Revolutionaries - Italy - Rome

Rome (Italy) History 476-1420

Rome (Italy) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Cola di Rienzo -- 1. Birth, Youth, and Society -- 2. Education, Profession, and Family -- 3. Reviving Antiquity -- 4. The Popes at Avignon -- 5. Cola and the Barons -- 6. Preparing for the Apocalypse -- 7. Pentecost -- 8. The Buono Stato -- 9. Cola and the World -- 10. War with the Barons -- 11. Abdication and Exile -- 12. Last World Emperor and Angel Pope -- 13. Apocalypse in Rome -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised



Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto's vivid biography of this charismatic leader-whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers, and dramatists, as well as historians-peels away centuries of interpretation to reveal the realities of fourteenth-century Italy and to offer a comprehensive account of Cola's rise and fall. A man of modest origins, Cola gained a reputation as a talented professional with an unparalleled knowledge of Rome's classical remains. After earning the respect and friendship of Petrarch and the sponsorship of Pope Clement VI, Cola won the affections and loyalties of all classes of Romans. His buono stato established the reputation of Rome as the heralded New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse and quickly made the city a potent diplomatic and religious center that challenged the authority-and power-of both pope and emperor. At the height of Cola's rule, a conspiracy of pope and barons forced him to flee the city and live for years as a fugitive until he was betrayed and taken to Avignon to stand trial as a heretic. Musto relates the dramatic story of Cola's subsequent exoneration and return to central Italy as an agent of the new pope. But only weeks after he reestablished his government, he was slain by the Romans atop the Capitoline hill. In his exploration, Musto examines every known document pertaining to Cola's life, including papal, private, and diplomatic correspondence rarely used by earlier historians. With his intimate knowledge of historical Rome-its streets and ruins, its churches and palaces, from the busy Tiber riverfront to the lost splendor of the Capitoline-he brings a cinematic flair to this fascinating historical narrative.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911150260703321

Autore

Baofu Peter

Titolo

The future of aesthetic experience : conceiving a better way to understand beauty, ugliness, and the rest / / Peter Baofu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2007

ISBN

1-282-19123-3

9786612191237

1-4438-0749-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 238 pages)

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Nature -- pt. 3. The mind -- pt. 4. Culture -- pt. 5. Society -- pt. 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Peter Baofu argues that the current popularity of postmodernism in the humanities (especially though not exclusively in relation to the arts) will not last, as it constitutes an aesthetic fad in this day and age of postmodernity. This thesis has important implications for understanding beauty, ugliness, and other aesthetic categories, be the era in the past, present, or future, to the extent that the current theoretical debate on aest...