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Pagan virtue in a Christian world : Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance / Anthony F. D'Elia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674088528
  • 0674088522
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pagan virtue in a Christian world.DDC classification:
  • 945/.05092 23
LOC classification:
  • BL432 .D45 2016
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The Pope's wrath and the black legend 1 -- Court culture and the Renaissance in Rimini -- The Greek Renaissance and the return of the Paideia -- An ancient hero on Renaissance battlefields -- Astrology, Plato, and pagan worship -- Pagan sex and heroic virtue -- Questioning virtue in Malatesta literature -- Sigismondo's peril and defiance -- Conclusion: the pagan Renaissance.
Summary: 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.-- Provided by Publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Pope's wrath and the black legend 1 -- Court culture and the Renaissance in Rimini -- The Greek Renaissance and the return of the Paideia -- An ancient hero on Renaissance battlefields -- Astrology, Plato, and pagan worship -- Pagan sex and heroic virtue -- Questioning virtue in Malatesta literature -- Sigismondo's peril and defiance -- Conclusion: the pagan Renaissance.

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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.-- Provided by Publisher.