Pagan Virtue In A Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta And The Italian Renaissance

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 DÆElia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism.

• | Author: Anthony F. D'Elia
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Art
• | ISBN-10: 0674088514
• | ISBN-13: 9780674088511