Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
Contents
The sack of Rome and the theme of cultural discontinuity -- Pietro Alcionio's orations on the sack of Rome -- Pietro Corsi's perpetuation of curialist ideology -- Renegotiation and remembrance: Jacopo Sadoleto's letters to curial friends, 1527-1529 -- The Italian humanism of Pierio Valeriano -- Traumatic memory into history: the cultural significance of humanists' narratives of the sack of Rome.