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Author D'Elia, Anthony F., 1967- author.

Title A sudden terror : the plot to murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome / Anthony F. D'Elia
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations
Contents Carnival to Lent -- The price of magnificence -- Lessons of rebellions past -- A pagan renaissance : sodomy and the classical tradition -- Consorting with the enemy : Mehmet II and the Ottoman threat -- The emperor's tomb -- Humanism imprisoned
Summary D'Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471 -- Assassination attempt, 1468
Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1428-1497.
Platina, 1421-1481
Buonaccorsi, Filippo, 1437-1496.
SUBJECT Buonaccorsi, Filippo, 1437-1496 fast
Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1428-1497 fast
Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471 fast
Platina, 1421-1481 fast
Subject Conspiracies -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
Humanists -- Italy -- Rome -- Biography
Papacy -- History -- 1447-1565.
Humanism -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500
Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Attempted assassination
Conspiracies
Humanism
Humanists
Papacy
Renaissance
SUBJECT Rome (Italy) -- History -- 1420-1798. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115201
Subject Italy -- Rome
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674053724
0674053729