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| Genre/Form: | Biographie Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Paolo Giovio; Paolo Giovio, vesc. di Nocera; Paolo Giovio; Paolo Giovio |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
T C Price Zimmermann |
| ISBN: | 0691043787 9780691043784 |
| OCLC Number: | 32131332 |
| Description: | xii, 391 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Origines (1486-1511) -- Humanist physician (1512-1527) -- Leonine Rome (1513-1521) -- Leo X and the quest for the Libertas Italiae (1513-1521) -- Adrian VI (1521-1523) -- Clement VII and the sack of Rome (1523-1527) -- Ischia (1527-1528) -- Papal courtier (1528-1534) -- Transitions (1535-1538) -- Courtier of the Farnese (1539-1544) -- The elusive prize (1545-1549) -- De Senectute (1549-1552) -- Conclusion: Ad Sempiternam Vitam -- Appendices: Giovio's ecclesiastical benefices -- Sequence of composition of the Histories -- First editions of Giovio's works. |
| Responsibility: | T.C. Price Zimmermann. |
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Abstract:
Giovio's Histories remained a widely used account of the wars of Italy for nearly two hundred and fifty years, although his objectivity was often questioned owing to the patronage he received. Following Burckhardt, who began to restore Giovio's reputation more than a century ago, Zimmermann reveals a conscientious, independent-minded historian and an astute commentator on the entire Mediterranean world, the first to integrate the contemporary history of the Muslim nations with that of Europe, east and west. The book also stresses the important contributions Giovio made to the ethos of the Renaissance through his biographies and famous portrait museum, both tributes to the emerging sense of individual human personality.
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- Giovio, Paolo, -- 1483-1552.
- Historians -- Italy -- Biography.
- Biographers -- Italy -- Biography.
- Bishops -- Italy -- Biography.
- Catholic Church -- Italy -- Bishops -- Biography.
- Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Historiography.
- Italy -- Church history -- 16th century.
- Italy -- History, 1494-1796
- Geschiedschrijving.
- Giovio, Paolo, -- vesc. di Nocera, -- 1483-1552.
- Storici italiani.
- Vescovi -- Italia -- Biografia.
- Giovio, Paolo.
- Giovio, Paolo -- (1483-1552).
- Église catholique -- Italie -- Évêques -- Biographies.
- Historiens -- Italie -- Biographies.
- Église catholique -- Évêques -- Italie -- Biographies.
- Italie -- 1492-1559 (Guerres d'Italie).

