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Rome, 1514. It is the high summer of the Italian Renaissance. The Turks have extinguished Constantinople, Rome's thousand-year rival. The ships of Portugal and Spain are gaining access to "new" worlds both east and west. Architects, craftsmen and artists - Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael among themswarm for commissions to rebuild and embellish the long-derelict city. The Eternal City is once again the undisputed center of Christendom. So what on earth is the pope doing with a baby white elephant? In this tour de force of original scholarship, Silvio Bedini gives us an elephant's-back view of early modern Europe unlike any we have seen before.
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Der Elefant des Papstes, Klaus Kochmann, Silvio A. Bedini
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- 2006
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- Title
- Der Elefant des Papstes
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Klaus Kochmann, Silvio A. Bedini
- Publisher
- Klett Cotta Verlag
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 366
- ISBN10
- 3608940251
- ISBN13
- 9783608940251
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, Religion & Spirituality, History, Nature, Religious Topics, Religion, Animals, Christian Themes, Christianity, Southern Europe, Italy, Art History & Criticism, History of Art
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
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- Rome, 1514. It is the high summer of the Italian Renaissance. The Turks have extinguished Constantinople, Rome's thousand-year rival. The ships of Portugal and Spain are gaining access to "new" worlds both east and west. Architects, craftsmen and artists - Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael among themswarm for commissions to rebuild and embellish the long-derelict city. The Eternal City is once again the undisputed center of Christendom. So what on earth is the pope doing with a baby white elephant? In this tour de force of original scholarship, Silvio Bedini gives us an elephant's-back view of early modern Europe unlike any we have seen before.