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- Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
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- 2014
- Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
summary
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxiv
- 1. The Myth of the Renaissance
- pp. 1-20
- 2. The Four Horsemen
- pp. 21-47
- 3. Corsignano and Siena
- pp. 48-64
- 4. The Exile
- pp. 65-89
- 5. The Cleric
- pp. 90-110
- 6. The Road to Mantua
- pp. 111-126
- 7. Renaissance Chivalry
- pp. 127-143
- 8. Mantua and After
- pp. 144-168
- 9. The Political Pope
- pp. 169-188
- 10. A Room of One’s Own
- pp. 189-206
- 11. Plague and Pleasure: 1462
- pp. 207-225
- 12. The Age of Spectacle
- pp. 226-244
- 13. Pienza
- pp. 245-257
- 14. Urban Dreams
- pp. 258-274
- 15. Visits to Antiquity
- pp. 275-294
- 16. Villas and Gardens
- pp. 295-311
- 17. The Crusade
- pp. 312-333
- 18. The Art of Copiousness
- pp. 334-358
- 19. Conclusion. Pius and His Period
- pp. 359-372
- Appendix. Plague in Italy, 1347–1700
- pp. 373-380
- Bibliography
- pp. 381-394
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813226828
Related ISBN(s)
9780813226811
MARC Record
OCLC
902656279
Pages
432
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014