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Author(s): Arthur White
ISBN(s): 9780813226811, 0813226813
Edition: Illustrated
File Details: PDF, 8.49 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0813226813

ISBN 13: 9780813226811 

Author: Arthur White 

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, and the humanism that immersed him in an idealized Roman past. This see-saw mentality of the period could plunge people into melancholy when facing harsh realities and then propel them into ecstasies of make-believe to counter their despair.

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.

Table of contents:

  1. List of Illustrations

  2. Foreword Michael Lewis

  3. Preface

  4. Acknowledgments

  5. The Myth of the Renaissance

  6. The Four Horsemen

  7. Corsignano and Siena

  8. The Exile

  9. The Cleric

  10. The Road to Mantua

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