Pagan Virtue in a Christian World : : Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance / / Anthony F. D'Elia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: D'Elia, Anthony F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 25 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; 1. The Pope's Wrath and the Black Legend --; 2. Court Culture and the Renaissance in Rimini --; 3. The Greek Renaissance and the Return of the Paideia --; 4. An Ancient Hero on Renaissance Battlefields --; 5. Astrology, Plato, and Pagan Worship --; 6. Pagan Sex and Heroic Virtue --; 7. Questioning Virtue in Malatesta Literature --; 8. Sigismondo's Peril and Defiance --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674088528; 9783110485103; 9783110485394; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674088528
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anthony F. D'Elia.

In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D'Elia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism.