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Plague and Pleasure: Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II by White Arthur; Arthur White; Michael Lewis is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Plague and Pleasure: Renaissance Escapism in the Life of Pope Pius II about?
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.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- White Arthur; Arthur White; Michael Lewis
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813226811
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, Memoir
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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