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A companion to early modern Rome, 1492-1692 /

A companion to early modern Rome, 1492-1692 / edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, Simon Ditchfield. - 1 online resource. - Brill's companions to European history, volume 17 2212-7410 ; Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386310 . - Brill's Companions to European History 17. Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386310. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction / "Urbi et Orbi": Governing the City and International Politics -- A Civic Identity / The Roman Curia / Diplomatic Culture in Early Modern Rome / Liturgical, Ritual, and Diplomatic Spaces at St. Peter's and the Vatican Palace: The Innovations of Paul IV, Urban VIII, and Alexander VII / Rome and the Vacant See / Justice and Crime / Romanus and Catholicus: Counter-Reformation Rome as Caput Mundi / Celebrating New Saints in Rome and across the Globe / "When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do": Living in the City and Campagna -- The Plural City: Urban Spaces and Foreign Communities / Rome's Economic Life, 1492-1692 / "Charitable" Assistance between Lay Foundations and Pontifical Initiatives / Building Brotherhood: Confraternal Piety, Patronage, and Place / Ghettoization: The Papal Enclosure and Its Jews / Roma Theatrum Mundi: Festivals and Processions in the Ritual City / Roma Sonora: An Atlas of Roman Sounds and Musics / "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day": Mapping, Planning, Building, and Display -- Mapping Rome's Rebirth / Papal Urban Planning and Renewal: Real and Ideal, c.1471-1667 / Renovatio Aquae: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Tiber River in Early Modern Rome / Palace Architecture and Decoration in Early Modern Rome / The Cultural Landscape of the Villa in Early Modern Rome / Elite Patronage and Collecting / Middle-Class Patronage, Collecting, and the Art Market / Roman Church Architecture: The Early Modern Facade / Scale, Space, and Spectacle: Church Decoration in Rome, 1500-1700 / "Ars longa, vita brevis": Intellectual Life in the Eternal City -- The Three Rs: Education in Early Modern Rome / Institutions and Dynamics of Learned Exchange / Scientific and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Rome / Roman Antiquities and Christian Archaeology / Printers and Publishers in Early Modern Rome / Sites and Sightseers: Rome through Foreign Eyes / Back Matter -- List of Popes, 1492-1692 -- Bibliography -- Index. Pamela M. Jones , Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield -- Eleonora Canepari and Laurie Nussdorfer -- Miles Pattenden -- Toby Osborne -- Margaret A. Kuntz -- John M. Hunt -- Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen -- Simon Ditchfield -- Pamela M. Jones -- Irene Fosi -- Renata Ago -- Anna Esposito -- Barbara Wisch -- Katherine Aron-Beller -- Minou Schraven -- Daniele V. Filippi -- Jessica Maier -- Carla Keyvanian -- Katherine W. Rinne -- Stephanie C. Leone -- Denis Ribouillault -- Lisa Beaven -- Patrizia Cavazzini -- John Beldon Scott -- Arnold A. Witte -- Christopher Carlsmith -- Kenneth Gouwens -- Elisa Andretta and Federica Favino -- Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli -- Evelyn Lincoln -- Jeffrey Collins --

This volume, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492-1692, an era of striking renewal: demographic, architectural, intellectual, and artistic. Rome's most distinctive aspects--including its twin governments (civic and papal), unique role as the seat of global Catholicism, disproportionately male population, and status as artistic capital of Europe--are examined from numerous perspectives. This book of 30 chapters, intended for scholars and students across the academy, fills a noteworthy gap in the literature. It is the only multidisciplinary study of 16th- and 17th-century Rome that synthesizes and critiques past and recent scholarship while offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics and identifying new avenues for research. Contributors are: Renata Ago, Elisa Andretta, Katherine Aron-Beller, Lisa Beaven, Eleonora Canepari, Christopher Carlsmith, Patrizia Cavazzini, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Jeffrey Collins, Simon Ditchfield, Anna Esposito, Federica Favino, Daniele V. Filippi, Irene Fosi, Kenneth Gouwens, Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli, John M. Hunt, Pamela M. Jones, Carla Keyvanian, Margaret A. Kuntz, Stephanie C. Leone, Evelyn Lincoln, Jessica Maier, Laurie Nussdorfer, Toby Osborne, Miles Pattenden, Denis Ribouillault, Katherine W. Rinne, Minou Schraven, John Beldon Scott, Barbara Wisch, Arnold A. Witte.

9789004391963

10.1163/9789004391963 DOI

2018058141


City and town life--History.--Italy--Rome
Art--History.--Italy--Rome
Architecture--History.--Italy--Rome
City planning--History.--Italy--Rome


Rome (Italy)--History--1420-1798.
Rome (Italy)--Politics and government--1420-1798.
Rome (Italy)--Church history.
Rome (Italy)--Intellectual life.

DG812 / .C66 2019

945.6/3207