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Plague and Pleasure: Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II by Arthur
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- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Plague and Pleasure: Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Topic
- Religious History, Christianity, History
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 277 Pages
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Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle. Pope Pius II experienced both plague and war during his reign and he exhibited many escapist behaviors typical of his period: the building of his Shangri-La at Pienza, his constant sight-seeing travels, his passion for natural scenery or Roman remains, his public spectacles, andthe humanism that immersed him in an idealized Roman past. This see-saw mentality of the period could plunge into melancholy when facing harsh realities and then propel them into ecstasies of makebelieve to counter their dispair. Plague and Pleasure uses the life and times of Pope Pius II as the framework for presenting a view of the Renaissance that the public can understand and appreciate and which may at least narrow the gap between the past known to scholars and that known to the public they ultimately serve.
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The Catholic University of America Press
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9780813226811
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Book Title
Plague and Pleasure: Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Religious History, Christianity, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
277 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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