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Plague and Pleasure: Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II 0813226813, 9780813226811
Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Myth of the Renaissance
2. The Four Horsemen
3. Corsignano and Siena
4. The Exile
5. The Cleric
6. The Road to Mantua
7. Renaissance Chivalry
8. Mantua and After
9. The Political Pope
10. A Room of One’s Own
11. Plague and Pleasure: 1462
12. The Age of Spectacle
13. Pienza
14. Urban Dreams
15. Visits to Antiquity
16. Villas and Gardens
17. The Crusade
18. The Art of Copiousness
19. Conclusion. Pius and His Period
Appendix. Plague in Italy, 1347–1700
Bibliography
Index
Citation preview
Plague and Pleasure
Modern statue of Pius II in Pienza Cathedral. Photo credit: Luke Ashworth-Sides.
Plague and Pleasure The Renaissance Wor ld of Pius II
Arthur White
Foreword by Michael Lewis
The Catholic University of amerika Press
Washington, D.C.
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“David Kertzer has an eye for a story, an ear for the right word, and an instinct for human tragedy. They all come together in The Pope and Mussolini to document, with meticulous scholarship and novelistic flair, the complicity between Pius XI and the Fascist leader in creating an unholy alliance between the Vatican and a totalitarian government rooted in corruption and brutality. This is a sophisticated blockbuster.”—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Revolutionary Summer
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Pope John Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see John Paul II (disambiguation), Pope John Paul II (disambiguation), Saint John Paul II (disambiguation), JP2 (disambiguation), and Karol Wojtyla (disambiguation).
Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus II; Polish: Jan Paweł II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła, Polish:[ˈkarɔlˈjuzɛvvɔjˈtɨwa];[b] 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
In his youth, Wojtyła dabbled in stage acting. He graduated with excellent grades from an all-boys high school in Wadowice, Poland, in 1938, soon after which World War II broke out. During the war, to avoid being kidnapped and sent off to a German forced labour camp, he signed up for work in harsh conditions in a quarry. Wojtyła eventually took up acting a