Remembering in the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome by Kenneth Gouwens

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #85

Remembering in the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome

Kenneth Gouwens

256 pages hardcover 1998

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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 R...

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