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Reviving the Eternal City : Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726154
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reviving the Eternal CityDDC classification:
  • 262.1309024
LOC classification:
  • BX1270
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Rome ca. 1420 -- 1. Rome's Third Founder? Martin V, Niccolò Signorili, and Roman Revival, 1420-1431 -- 2. In the Theater of Lies: Curial Humanists on the Benefits and Evils of Courtly Life -- 3. A Reign Subject to Fortune: Guides to Survival at the Court of Eugenius IV -- 4. Curial Plans for the Reform of the Church -- 5. Acting as the One True Pope: Eugenius IV and Papal Ceremonial -- 6. Eugenius IV, Biondo Flavio, Filarete, and the Rebuilding of Rome -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In the first half of the fifteenth century, Rome and the papal court were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, conciliarism and papalism, an image of a restored republic and a dream of a papal capital. Elizabeth McCahill explores the transformation of Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Rome ca. 1420 -- 1. Rome's Third Founder? Martin V, Niccolò Signorili, and Roman Revival, 1420-1431 -- 2. In the Theater of Lies: Curial Humanists on the Benefits and Evils of Courtly Life -- 3. A Reign Subject to Fortune: Guides to Survival at the Court of Eugenius IV -- 4. Curial Plans for the Reform of the Church -- 5. Acting as the One True Pope: Eugenius IV and Papal Ceremonial -- 6. Eugenius IV, Biondo Flavio, Filarete, and the Rebuilding of Rome -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In the first half of the fifteenth century, Rome and the papal court were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, conciliarism and papalism, an image of a restored republic and a dream of a papal capital. Elizabeth McCahill explores the transformation of Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.

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