Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. The Pope’s Wrath and the Black Legend -- 2. Court Culture and the Renaissance in Rimini -- 3. The Greek Renaissance and the Return of the Paideia -- 4. An Ancient Hero on Renaissance Battlefields -- 5. Astrology, Plato, and Pagan Worship -- 6. Pagan Sex...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Theologie, Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Montherlant, Henry de 1896-1972, Malatesta
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/ Christianity
/ Paganism
B Rimini / Humanism / History 1430-1470 |
| Further subjects: | B
Paganism in literature
B Paganism (Italy) (Rimini) B Christianity and other religions B Paganism B Civilization, Medieval B Renaissance / HISTORY |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. The Pope’s Wrath and the Black Legend -- 2. Court Culture and the Renaissance in Rimini -- 3. The Greek Renaissance and the Return of the Paideia -- 4. An Ancient Hero on Renaissance Battlefields -- 5. Astrology, Plato, and Pagan Worship -- 6. Pagan Sex and Heroic Virtue -- 7. Questioning Virtue in Malatesta Literature -- 8. Sigismondo’s Peril and Defiance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index 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 the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism |
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| ISBN: | 0674088522 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4159/9780674088528 |