Pagan virtue in a Christian world : Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: D'Elia, Anthony F., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo, > signore di Rimini, > 1417-1468.
Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo, > signore di Rimini, > 1417-1468
1268-1492
Paganism > Italy > Rimini.
Paganism in literature.
Christianity and other religions.
Civilization, Medieval.
Paganisme > Italie > Rimini.
Paganisme dans la littérature.
Christianisme > Relations.
Civilisation médiévale.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Christianity and other religions
Civilization, Medieval
Paganism
Paganism in literature
Kulturhistoria.
Hedendom i litteraturen.
Hedendom.
Kristendom och andra religioner.
Historia.
Italy > History > 1268-1492.
Italie > Histoire > 1268-1492.
Italy
Italy > Rimini
Italië.
Italien > Rimini.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Pope's wrath and the black legend 1
  • Court culture and the Renaissance in Rimini
  • The Greek Renaissance and the return of the Paideia
  • An ancient hero on Renaissance battlefields
  • Astrology, Plato, and pagan worship
  • Pagan sex and heroic virtue
  • Questioning virtue in Malatesta literature
  • Sigismondo's peril and defiance
  • Conclusion: the pagan Renaissance.

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