A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome

By Anthony F. D'Elia

Book Overview

D'Elia offers a story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035550
• ISBN13: 9780674035553
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"