Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Italy

This volume explores the process of definition, evolution and representation of the figures of the prince and the condottiero in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy: two roles that often appear as interconnected and, in some cases, are embodied by the same political actor. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach and considering different cultural centres (e.g. Milan, Florence, Naples, Ferrara), the contributions to this book examine different forms and genres through which these key political figures have been portrayed and theorised: historical narratives, political treatises,...

Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term "Middle Age" to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. While serving a number of Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient world.

The capstone of this research program, Rome in Triumph (1459), has been said to bear comparison with the...

This volume of the Repertorium Poentitentiariea Germanicum is a collection of Latin regesta from the register of petitions of the supreme ecclesiastic office of penitence and absolution of the Roman Curia under Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503). The petitions, published here for the first time, contain previously unknown material on ecclesiastic, social, state and family history in German speaking Europe.

Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum is an edition of Latin Regesta from the supplication registers of the Penitentiary, the supreme Papal tribunal on penance and dispensations, during the late Middle Ages. Together with Repertorium Germanicum, it represents a further major source for scholarly research on the medieval German Empireof the 15th century.