[PDF.98ci] Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II

Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II

[PDF.di95] Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II

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 | #1496011 in Books |  2014-11-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.10 x3.30 x11.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Great Read|By Philip Rogers|The length of the book might make you think that this is one for academics only. Nothing could be further from the truth. Dr. Arthur White presents an eye-opening view of the history of the Renaissance in an extremely readable style. Using the life and times of Pope Pius II, largely taken from Pius' own accounts, Dr. White is able to point to a the|About the Author|Arthur White is adjunct professor of history at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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 litera...

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