Remembering the Renaissance
Subtitle: humanist narratives of the sack of Rome
By: by Kenneth Gouwens.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history,; v. 85
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Humanists -- Italy -- Rome.; Humanism in literature.; Papacy -- History -- 1447-1565.; Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome.; Rome (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1527 -- Historiography.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Description: An assessment of how four humanists at the court of Pope Clement VII - Pietro Alcionio, Pietro Corsi, Jacopo Sadoleto, and Pierio Valeriano - interpreted the cataclysmic Sack of Rome (1527), which called into question their earlier images of the Renaissance papacy. Building upon recent discussions in literary criticism and cognitive psychology, the author elucidates how these humanists' narratives gave meaningful shape to their memories and, in so doing, helped to redefine the image of Renaissance Rome as it would be "remembered" by subsequent generations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228) and index.