Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
List of the Renaissance Popes
1. Introduction
2. Urbs Roma
3. The Renaissance Papacy and the Respublica Christiana
4. The Primacy of Peter Princeps Apostolorum and the Instauratio Ecclesiae Romae
5. The Renovatio Imperii and the Renovatio Romae
6. Roma Aeterna and the Plenitudo Temporum
7. Epilogue: The Sack and Its Aftermath
8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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The first comprehensive portrait of the Roman Renaissance world.

About the Author

CHARLES L. STINGER is Associate Dean and Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance and numerous essays and articles on Renaissance Rome.

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