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100 1 White, Arthur,|d1942-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n2014048139|eauthor.
245 10 Plague and pleasure :|bthe renaissance world of Pius II /
|cArthur White ; with a foreword by Michael Lewis.
264 1 Washington, District of Columbia :|bCatholic University of
America,|c[2014]
264 4 |c©2014
300 1 online resource (xxiv, 433 pages) :|billustrations, map
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-394), and
index.
505 0 The myth of the Renaissance -- The four horsemen --
Corsignano and Siena -- The exile -- The cleric -- The
road to Mantua -- Renaissance chivalry -- Mantua and after
-- The political pope -- A room of one's own -- Plague and
pleasure : 1462 -- The age of spectacle -- Pienza -- Urban
dreams -- Visits to antiquity -- Villas and gardens -- The
Crusade -- The art of copiousness -- Conclusion : Pius and
his period -- Appendix : plague in Italy, 1347-1700.
520 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.
588 0 Print version record.
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700 1 Lewis, Michael|q(Michael M.),|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n88200544|ewriter of foreword.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aWhite, Arthur, 1942-|tPlague and
pleasure.|dWashington, D.C. : The Catholic University of
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