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A Sudden Terror : The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome / Anthony F. D'Elia.

D'Elia, Anthony F., author.
2009
BX1309 .D45 2009eb
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Title
A Sudden Terror : The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome / Anthony F. D'Elia.
Author
D'Elia, Anthony F., author.
ISBN
9780674053724
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053724
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.4159/9780674053724 doi
Call Number
BX1309 .D45 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
945/.63205092
Summary
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.
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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
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