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The Censorship And Fortuna Of Platinas Lives Of The Popes In The Sixteenth Century
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Book Synopsis The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's Lives of the Popes in the Sixteenth Century by : Stefan Bauer
Download or read book The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's Lives of the Popes in the Sixteenth Century written by Stefan Bauer and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bartolomeo Sacchi ('Platina', 1421-1481) wrote his Vitae pontificum (Lives of the Popes) and presented it to Pope Sixtus IV in 1475, he surely could not have imagined how influential it would become over the centuries. His was the first papal history composed as a humanist Latin narrative and, as such, marked a distinct breakthrough in relation to the Liber pontificalis, the standard medieval chronicle of the papacy. Whatever Platina's intentions for the book, it soon came to be regarded as the official history of the Roman pontiffs. After the editio princeps of Venice 1479, updated and extended editions continued to be produced until late in the eighteenth century. The largely untold story of Platina's Lives of the Popes and its fortuna is the focus of this book. The Lives were particularly popular because of Platina's frank criticisms of papal behaviour which did not live up to his humanist moral values. He reminded the popes that they were mere human beings and urged them not to indulge in luxury and nepotism. Catholics, whether or not they agreed with such indictments, read the Lives eagerly, while Protestants naturally appreciated Platina's fault-finding approach towards the papacy. The role which censorship played in the reception of the Lives was previously unknown. This book examines the censorship process (1587-1592) in detail, including a critical edition of the assessments and corrections by English and Italian censors newly uncovered in the Vatican and in Milan.
Book Synopsis The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's 'Lives of the Popes' in the Sixteenth Century (with an Annotated Edition of Unpublished Documents). by :
Download or read book The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's 'Lives of the Popes' in the Sixteenth Century (with an Annotated Edition of Unpublished Documents). written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Invention of Papal History by : Stefan Bauer
Download or read book The Invention of Papal History written by Stefan Bauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how historical writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualising the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568), Stefan Bauer shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Crucial questions were, for example: How were the pontiffs elected? How many popes had been puppets of emperors? Could any of the past machinations, schisms, and disorder in the history of the Church be admitted to the reading public? Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of ideology and censorship placed on them. The Invention of Papal History sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.
Book Synopsis Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters by : Giovanni Andrea Gilio
Download or read book Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters written by Giovanni Andrea Gilio and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Andrea Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it unfolded at the time of the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation. Relatively little is known about Gilio himself, a cleric from Fabriano, Italy. He was evidently familiar with Cardinal Alessandro Farnese’s lively court circle in Rome and dedicated his book to the cardinal. His text—available here in English in full for the first time—takes the form of a spirited dialogue among six protagonists, using the voices of each to present different points of view. Through their dialogue Gilio grapples with a host of issues, from the relationship between poetry and painting, to the function of religious images, to the effects such images have on viewers. The primary focus is the proper representation of history, and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel is the exemplary case. Indeed, Michelangelo’s painting is both praised and condemned as an example of the possibilities and limits of art. Although Gilio’s dialogue is often quoted by art historians to point out the more controlling view of art and artists by the Roman Catholic Church, the unabridged text reveals the nuanced and provisional debates happening during this critical era.
Book Synopsis Historiographie an europäischen Höfen (16.-18. Jahrhundert) by : Markus Völkel
Download or read book Historiographie an europäischen Höfen (16.-18. Jahrhundert) written by Markus Völkel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die historische Forschung erachtet die hof- und staatsnahe Historiographie der frühen Neuzeit als parteiisch, methodisch veralteten Modellen verpflichtet und im Bereich der Öffentlichkeit als dysfunktional und ineffizient. Zurecht? Die europäischen Höfe erzeugten in der Genealogie und im Zeremoniell für die Geschichtsschreibung systemrelevantes historisches Wissen. Über Hof- und Staatshistoriker konnten 'Geschichtsbilder' entworfen werden, die im nationalen wie übernationalen Rahmen durchaus Erfolg hatten. Gerade die offiziöse Geschichtsschreibung erweist sich als präzises Meßinstrument für die Verfaßtheit der jeweiligen Öffentlichkeit. Aufschlußreich sind zudem die Strategien und Investitionen der Regierungen im Bereich der historischen Repräsentation. Es wird deutlich, daß die Geschichtsschreibung auch eine vielseitige Vermittlerin von politischen, ästhetischen und wissenschaftlichen Programmen war. Somit wirkt sie nicht nur bei der Artikulation eines gesamteuropäischen Geschichtsraumes mit, sie fordert auch zur Suche nach Parallelphänomenen in außereuropäischen Gesellschaften auf.
