Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
by Arthur White
Catholic University of America Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-0-8132-2682-8 | Paper: 978-0-8132-2681-1 Library of Congress Classification BX1308.W45 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 282.092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
by Arthur White
Catholic University of America Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-0-8132-2682-8 Paper: 978-0-8132-2681-1
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.