Remembering the Renaissance : : humanist narratives of the sack of Rome /

Remembering the Renaissance : : humanist narratives of the sack of Rome / / by Kenneth Gouwens.

An assessment of how four humanists in the court of Pope Clement VII - Pietro Alcionio, Pietro Corsi, Jacopo Sadoleto, and Pierio Valeriano - interpreted the cataclysmic Sack of Rome (1527), which called into question their earlier images of the Renaissance papacy. Building upon recent discussions i...

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 85
VerfasserIn:
Gouwens, Kenneth,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Latin
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 85.
Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages) :; facsimiles.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • CHAPTER ONE: THE SACK OF ROME AND THE THEME OF CULTURAL DISCONTINUITY
  • CHAPTER TWO: PIETRO ALCIONIO'S ORATIONS ON THE SACK OF ROME
  • CHAPTER THREE: PIETRO GORSI AND THE PERPETUATION OF CURIALIST IDEOLOGY
  • CHAPTER FOUR: RENEGOTIATION AND REMEMBRANCE: JACOPO SADOLETO'S LETTERS TO CURIAL FRIENDS, 1527-1529
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE ITALIAN HUMANISM OF PIERIO VALERIANO
  • CHAPTER SIX: TRAUMATIC MEMORY INTO HISTORY: THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMANISTS' NARRATIVES OF THE SACK OF ROME
  • PLATES
  • APPENDIX ONE: PIETRO ALCIONIO'S ORATIONS ON THE SACK OF ROME, TRANSCRIBED FROM AUTOGRAPH DRAFTS IN BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA MS VAT. LAT. 3436
  • APPENDIX TWO: LETTERS FROM JACOPO SADOLETO TO CLEMENT VII (1527-28) TRANSCRIBED FROM THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ARCHIVIO SEGRETO VATICANO
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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