Paolo Giovio : : The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy / / T. C. Price Zimmerman.
Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described--the wars of France, Germany, and Spain, and the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Bibliography
- CHAPTER ONE. Origines (1486-1511)
- CHAPTER TWO. Humanist Physician (1512-1527)
- CHAPTER THREE. Leonine Rome (1513-1521)
- CHAPTER FOUR. Leo X and the Quest for the Libertas Italiae (1513-1521)
- CHAPTER FIVE. Adrian VI (1521-1523)
- CHAPTER SIX. Clement VII and the Sack of Rome (1523-1527)
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Ischia (1527-1528)
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Papal Courtier (1528-1534)
- CHAPTER NINE. Transitions (1535-1538)
- CHAPTER TEN. Courtier of the Farnese (1539-1544)
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Elusive Prize (1545-1549)
- CHAPTER TWELVE. De Senectute (1549-1552)
- CONCLUSION: Ad Sempiternam Vitam
- APPENDIX 1: Giovio's Ecclesiastical Benefices
- APPENDIX 2: Sequence of Composition of the Histories
- APPENDIX 3: First Editions of Giovio's Works
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index