Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance period : essays

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Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance period : essays

edited by Marjorie Reeves

(Oxford-Warburg studies)

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-429) and indexes

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Description

The dimension of prophecy has been largely missed, both in general political studies of Renaissance Rome and in studies of its art and culture at this time. During the last two or three decades, however, a number of scholars have been at work on a wide range of prophetic material, largely in unpublished sources. Their work has been scattered in specialist studies and journals. In bringing together studies by a group of key scholars in the field, a new light is thrown on the perspectives and expectations of certain Renaissance Popes (particularly Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII), of members of the Curia, and of other leading figures of the time. Political, cultural and artistic strands interweave around the prophetic themes in a manner which creates a distinctive ambience in the Rome of the pre-Counter Reformation. Following an introduction the book is divided into seven sections: the proliferation and circulation of new prophecies; prophecy and the Councils; interpreters of prophecy; prophecy and popular culture; prophecy and political themes; and prophecy and iconography.

Table of Contents

  • The Medieval heritage, Marjorie Reeves
  • the Apocalypsis Nova, Anna Morisi-Guerra
  • prophecy at the time of the Council of Pisa (1511-1513), Aldo Landi
  • prophecy and the fifth lateran Council (1512-1517), Nelson H. Minnich
  • Cardinal Egidio of Viterbo, Marjorie Reeves
  • the role of prophecy in the career of the enigmatic Bernardino Lopez de Carvajal, Nelson H. Minnich
  • Giorgio Benigno Salviati (Dragisic), Cesare Vasoli
  • an angelic Pope before the sack of Rome, Roberto Rusconi
  • notes on a forgotten prophet - Paulus Angelus and Rome, Bernard McGinn
  • high and low prophectic culture in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century, Ottavia Niccoli
  • the whores of Babylon, Angus MacKay
  • a note on Fra Pelagio, a hermit-prophet in Rome, Thomas Cohen
  • rhetoric and reality, John Headley
  • a note on prophecy and the sack of Rome (1527), Marjorie Reeves
  • new heaven and new earth, Adriano Prosperi
  • the iconography of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Malcolm Bull
  • Joachimist prophecies in Sebastiano del Piombo's Borgherini Chapel and Raphael's transfiguration, Josephine Jungic
  • prophecies of the angelic pastor, J. Jungic
  • Marcellus II, Girolamo Seripando and the image of the angelic Pope, William Hudon.

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