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The Renaissance Popes. Culture, Power and the Making of the Borgia Myth

Door Gerard Noel

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#329885-VA35
Titel
The Renaissance Popes. Culture, Power and the Making of the Borgia Myth
Auteur
Noel, Gerard
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Constable
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
1845293436
ISBN13
9781845293437
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original red boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V), Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the world s largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new fundraising initiative was launched: the sale of indulgences. The Renaissance Popes were statesmen, warriors, patrons of the arts as well as churchmen. These were earthly times and the reputations of popes like Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'Il Terrible' II for murder, poison, sodomy and simony vary only in degree. Meanwhile, the sin of heresy, which threatens the very core ... (Lees verder)of the Catholic soul, was tirelessly targeted by two other lasting innovations of the period: the Inquisition and witch-hunts. Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, is seen to this day as the embodiment of this iniquity. But Gerard Noel shows this is unjust, and based on false confessions and historical myth. What's more, Alexander created the blueprint for reform - the first of its kind - that would eventually lead to the Counter-Reformation. In his survey of the colourful reigns of the seventeen Renaissance Popes and his examination of the great Borgia myth Noel brings to light the true legacy - political, artistic, religious - of an extraordinary time.
Pagina's
403
Conditie
Goed — Dust jacket partly slightly discoloured.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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