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Hardcover The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry Book

ISBN: 0198878907

ISBN13: 9780198878902

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome--a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains--power, morality, cityscape and literature--in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces...

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