Main entry:

Zimmermann, T. C. Price, 1934-

Title & Author:

Paolo Giovio : the historian and the crisis of sixteenth-century Italy / T.C. Price Zimmermann.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.

Description:

xii, 391 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-381) and index.
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.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

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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ISBN:

0691043787
9780691043784
9788848813778
8848813771

Subject:

Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Giovio, Paolo 1483-1552
Giovio, Paolo, (1483-1552)
Giovio, Paolo.
Catholic Church Italy Bishops Biography.
Église catholique Évêques Biographies.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique Italie Évêques Biographies.
Historians Italy Biography.
Biographers Italy Biography.
Bishops Italy Biography.
Biographes Italie Biographies.
Évêques Italie Biographies.
Biographers.
Bishops.
Historians.
Historiography.
Geschichte
Kultur
Geschiedschrijving.
Historians Italy 16th century.
Bishops Italy 16th century.
Historiens Italie Biographies.
Église catholique Évêques Italie Biographies.
Italy History 1492-1559 Historiography.
Italy Church history 16th century.
Italie Histoire 1492-1559 Historiographie.
Italie Histoire religieuse 16e siècle.
Italy.
Italien
Italie 1492-1559 (Guerres d'Italie)
Italy History, 1494-1796

Form/genre:

Biographie.
Biographies.
History
Church history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115155
Call No.: ID DG465.7.G514 Z5; ID:96-B272
Status: Available