History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Vol. 7-2

Volume VII, Part 2 includes Book Thirteen, chapters 5-7 of Gregorovius’ History. BOOK THIRTEEN, Chapters 5-7 covers the years 1497 to 1503. It treats Italy after Charles VIII’s invasion; Alexander VI and the Papal States; Caesar and Lucrezia Borgia; the Jubilee of 1500; the Colonna and Orsini; Louis XII of France invasion of Italy; the Renaissance in Rome: the Vatican Library, printing, philology; Poggio, Bruni, Filelfo, Beccadelli and Valla; Greek studies: Chrysoloras, George of Trebizond, Theodore of Gaza, Cardinal Bessarion; destruction of the monuments; epigraphy and archaeology; the historians and biographers: Biondo, Pius II, Ammanati, Vespasiano, Manetti, Platina, Infessura; poets and playwrights; theater and spectacle; the Academies; architecture, sculpture and the decorative arts; painting; the city of Rome surveyed by region c. 1500. Read more