Product Description: The author analyzes the Renaissance rebuilding of Saint Peter's basilica as a mirror of the political fortunes of the papacy. The project to revitalize the basilica as the center of a resurgent Church proceeded in step with the goal to reassert papal authority across the Italian peninsula, and to extend that authority to the Eastern Mediterranean by mounting a crusade to recover the Holy Land...read more

A vivid biography set against the backdrop of the Italian Renaissance reveals the unusual story of Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, who became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of her era.

Product Description: Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created. This period, now called the High Renaissance, is generally considered to be one of the high points of Western civilisation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"... comprehensive, readable, beautifully documented... I cannot imagine a library or a person seriously interested in Renaissance Rome without it." ―Manuscripta"Brilliant synthesis. A must." ―Bibliotheque L’Humanisme et Renaissance"... no book in English or otherwise covers the breadth of Renaissance Rome as this one does. It will be definitive for a long time." ―Church History"... attractively presented... stimulating... " ―Renaissance Studies"In lively prose... the author paints a complex multilayered image of compelling vividness." ―History of European IdeasA distinctively Roman Renaissance starting in the middle of the fifteenth century is the subject of Charles Stinger’s celebrated study. Cultural history at its best, The Renaissance in Rome will inform both Renaissance and Reformation scholars, as well as general readers fascinated and affected by the Eternal City.