Read Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

Anthony F. D'Elia

4.9/5 (9930 ratings)

Description:In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate?Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417-1468), Anthony D'Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there.In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo's court, D'Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance. To get started finding Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 355

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0674088514

Description: In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate?Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417-1468), Anthony D'Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there.In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo's court, D'Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance. To get started finding Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

More Books

The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Harvard Historical Studies)

The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Harvard Historical Studies)

A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome

A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome

The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

Britiske Komponister: Georg Friedrich Handel, Anthony Phillips, George Martin, Frank Bridge, Craig Armstrong, Delia Derbyshire, John Surman

Britiske Komponister: Georg Friedrich Handel, Anthony Phillips, George Martin, Frank Bridge, Craig Armstrong, Delia Derbyshire, John Surman

My Own Shadow - Gifted Ones: Half-Gifted, A'Marie, Achille Dante Heberto, Alvaro Vanfischer, Amber Garner, Andrew Oliver, Angela Wingrose, Anthony Brown, Ava Winder, Bastien Fawkes, Chloris Achilleus, Claire Langden, Delacoix Dureve, Delia Faire

My Own Shadow - Gifted Ones: Half-Gifted, A'Marie, Achille Dante Heberto, Alvaro Vanfischer, Amber Garner, Andrew Oliver, Angela Wingrose, Anthony Brown, Ava Winder, Bastien Fawkes, Chloris Achilleus, Claire Langden, Delacoix Dureve, Delia Faire

By Choice: The Right School for Your Child!

By Choice: The Right School for Your Child!

The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy [RENAISSANCE OF MARRIAGE IN 15T] [Hardcover]

The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy [RENAISSANCE OF MARRIAGE IN 15T] [Hardcover]