The Lives of the Popes and Emperors.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Description and Genre -- Sources -- The Book as Artifact and Its History -- Authorship -- Petrarch's De viris illustribus -- Pseudo-Petrarch and the Liber pontificalis and De viris illustribus traditions -- Conclusions -- Through the First Century -- The Second Century -- The Third Century -- The Fourth Century -- The Fifth Century -- The Sixth Century -- The Seventh Century -- The Eighth Century -- The Ninth Century -- The Tenth Century -- The Eleventh Century -- The Twelfth Century -- The Thirteenth Century -- The Fourteenth Century -- The Fifteenth Century -- The Sixteenth Century -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

The Lives of the Popes and Emperors, long attributed to Petrarch, offers the lives of 230 popes and 117 emperors from Julius Caesar to Pope Clement VII and the year 1526. It combines the medieval chronicle's narrative of people, events, natural and celestial wonders with the grand themes of papal and imperial history and of sacred and secular authority. This volume offers a contemporary English translation of the complete text. Tania Zampini provides an introduction to the work and places it into the larger context of Renaissance society and culture, focusing on the work's major themes and its interest in papal, imperial and central Italian politics as well as on the newly emerging lay textual communities and religious cultures of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Martin Luther. The text is annotated with historical, cultural and biographical details and accompanied by a select bibliography and complete index, 17 illustrations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.