Remembering in the Renaissance - Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome

An assessment of how four humanists in the court of Pope Clement VII - Pietro Alcionio, Pietro Corsi, Jacopo Sadoleto, and Pierio Valeriano - interpreted the cataclysmic Sack of Rome (1527), which called into question their earlier images of the Renaissance papacy. Building upon recent discussions in literary criticism and cognitive psychology, the author elucidates how these humanists' narratives gave meaningful shape to their memories and, in so doing, helped to redefine the image of Renaissance Rome as it would be "remembered" by subsequent generations.

About the author

Kenneth Gouwens, Ph.D. (1991) in History and Humanities, Stanford University, teaches European intellectual and cultural history at the University of South Carolina. He has published extensively on the culture of Renaissance Rome under Pope Clement VII (1523-1534).

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Gouwens
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.1998
• EAN: 9789004109698
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10969-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)