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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: D'Elia, Anthony F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674053724; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674053724
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anthony F. D'Elia.

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.