Remembering the Renaissance : humanist narratives of the sack of Rome / by Kenneth Gouwens.

Main entry:

Gouwens, Kenneth.

Title & Author:

Remembering the Renaissance : humanist narratives of the sack of Rome / by Kenneth Gouwens.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.

Description:

xix, 232 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 85

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
The sack of Rome and the theme of cultural discontinuity -- Pietro Alcionio's orations on the sack of Rome -- Pietro Corsi's perpetuation of curialist ideology -- Renegotiation and remembrance: Jacopo Sadoleto's letters to curial friends, 1527-1529 -- The Italian humanism of Pierio Valeriano -- Traumatic memory into history: the cultural significance of humanists' narratives of the sack of Rome.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

An assessment of how four humanists at 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 Renaissance papacy. Building upon recent discussions in literary criticism and cognitive psychology, the author elucidates how these humanists' narratives gave meaningful shape to their memories and, in so doing, helped to redefine the image of Renaissance Rome as it would be "remembered" by subsequent generations.

Resources:
1850-9999

ISBN:

9004109692 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9789004109698 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Katholische Kirche Curia Romana
Humanists Italy Rome.
Humanism in literature.
Papacy History 1447-1565.
Renaissance Italy Rome.
Humanistes Italie Rome.
Humanisme dans la littérature.
Papauté Histoire 1447-1565.
Renaissance Italie Rome.
Historiography
Humanists
Intellectual life
Papacy
Renaissance
Sacco di Roma
Humanist
Geschiedschrijving.
Plundering.
Humanists Italy.
Rome (Italy) History Siege, 1527 Historiography.
Italy Intellectual life 1268-1559.
Rome (Italy) History Siege, 1527.
Rome (Italie) Histoire 1527 (Sac) Historiographie.
Italie Vie intellectuelle 1268-1559.
Italy
Italy Rome

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 85.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203814
Call No.: DG812.12 .G68 1998
Status: Available

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