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A sudden terror : the plot to murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome

Anthony F. D'Elia (Author)
D'Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks

eBook, English, 2009
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2009