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Plague and Pleasure - Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II (Paperback)
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Plague and Pleasure - Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II (Paperback)
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Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a
new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in
Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of
chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and
pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental
escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or
space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the
imagination through literature, art, and spectacle. Pope Pius II
experienced both plague and war during his reign and he exhibited
many escapist behaviors typical of his period: the building of his
"Shangri-La" at Pienza, his constant sight-seeing travels, his
passion for natural scenery or Roman remains, his public
spectacles, andthe humanism that immersed him in an idealized Roman
past. This see-saw mentality of the period could plunge into
melancholy when facing harsh realities and then propel them into
ecstasies of makebelieve to counter their dispair. Plague and
Pleasure uses the life and times of Pope Pius II as the framework
for presenting a view of the Renaissance that the public can
understand and appreciate and which may at least narrow the gap
between the past known to scholars and that known to the public
they ultimately serve.
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