Pagan Virtue in a Christian World : Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Rena...

by Anthony F. D¿Elia

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Pagan Virtue in a Christian World : Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance, Hardcover by D'Elia, Anthony F., ISBN 0674088514, ISBN-13 9780674088511, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D’Elia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN: 9780674088511
• Condition: Fine

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