The Renaissance in Rome

. . . comprehensive, readable, beautifully documented . . . I cannot imagine a library or a person seriously interested in Renaissance Rome without it. --Manuscripta

Brilliant synthesis. A must. --Bibliotheque L'Humanisme et Renaissance

. . . no book in English or otherwise covers the breadth of Renaissance Rome as this one does. It will be definitive for a long time. --Church History

. . . attractively presented . . . stimulating . . . --Renaissance Studies

In lively prose . . . the author paints a complex multilayered image of compelling vividness. --History of European Ideas

A distinctively Roman Renaissance starting in the middle of the fifteenth century is the subject of Charles Stinger's celebrated study. Cultural history at its best, The Renaissance in Rome will inform both Renaissance and Reformation scholars, as well as general readers fascinated and affected by the Eternal City.

Author: Charles L. Stinger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/22/1998
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780253212085

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.