Format:
Online-Ressource (406 p.)
ISBN:
9780691043784
Content:
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 proto-journalism. With his interests in history, literature, geography, exploration, medicine, and the arts, this man reflects almost the entire spectrum of High Renaissa
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400821839
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Paolo Giovio : The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy
Language:
English
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