Lives of the Popes (I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY, Band 30) - Hardcover

Buch 30 von 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Platina, Bartolomeo

 
9780674028197: Lives of the Popes (I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY, Band 30)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674028198 ISBN 13: 9780674028197
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2008

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Bartolomeo Platina (1421 1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head of the Vatican Library. A papal official under the humanist Pope Pius II, he was a member of the humanist academies of Cardinal Bessarion and Pomponio Leto, and was twice imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II. Returning to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, he composed his most famous work, a biographical compendium of the Roman popes from St. Peter down to his own time. The work critically synthesized a wide range of sources and became the standard reference work on papal history for early modern Europe, reprinted dozens of times and translated into a number of languages. A characteristic work of Renaissance humanism, it used Christian antiquity as a standard against which to criticize modern churchmen. This edition contains the first complete translation into English and an improved Latin text. Volume 1, the first of a projected four, covers the period from the founding of the church through ad 461.

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Anthony F. D'Elia is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674028198
ISBN 13 
9780674028197
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