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Paolo Giovio : the historian and the crisis of sixteenth-century Italy

Author: T C Price Zimmermann
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described - the wars of France, Germany, and Spain and the sack of Rome. He used the information he gleaned from his contacts to carry on an extensive correspondence that became a
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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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Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described - the wars of France, Germany, and Spain and the sack of Rome. He used the information he gleaned from his contacts to carry on an extensive correspondence that became a kind of protojournalism. With his interests in history, literature, geography, exploration, medicine, and the arts, this man reflects almost the entire spectrum of High Renaissance civilization. In a biography surveying both Giovio's life and works, T.C. Price Zimmermann examines the historian as a figure formed by fifteenth-century humanism who was caught in the changing temper of the Counter-Reformation.

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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