The Renaissance Popes - Gerard Noel
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Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the worlds largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new fundraising initiative was launched: the sale of indulgences. The Renaissance Popes were statesmen, warriors, patrons of the arts as well as churchmen. These were earthly times and the reputations of popes like Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'Il Terrible' II for murder, poison, sodomy and simony vary only in degree. Meanwhile, the sin of heresy, which threatens the very core of the Catholic soul, was tirelessly targeted by two other lasting innovations of the period: the Inquisition and witch-hunts. Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, is seen to this day as the embodi...
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2006Uitgever: Little, Brown Book Group Limited403 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1845293436ISBN-13: 9781845293437Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original red boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated in colour and b/w, 8vo.; Dust jacket partly slightly discoloured. [Auteur: Noel, Gerard] [Pagina's: 403] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London : Constable] [Jaar: 2006] [Titel: The Renaissance Popes. Culture, Power and the Making of the Borgia Myth]
