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

      Anthony F. D'Elia

      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…

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

      Anthony F. D'Elia

      In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a…

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      The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy

      Anthony F. D'Elia

      Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orations given in Latin. D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support…

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      Lives of the Popes: Antiquity

      Bartolomeo Platina

      Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421-1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed this biographical compendium of the Roman popes, which became the standard reference…

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