On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome’s barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto’s vivid biography of this charismatic leader―whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers, and dramatists, as well as historians―peels away centuries of interpretation to reveal the realities of fourteenth-century Italy and to offer a comprehensive account of Cola’s rise and fall. A man of modest origins, Cola gained a reputation as a talented professional with an unparalleled knowledge of Rome’s classical remains. After earning the respect and friendship of Petrarch and the sponsorship of Pope Clement VI, Cola won the affections and loyalties of all classes of Romans. His buono stato established the reputation of Rome as the heralded New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse and quickly made the city a potent diplomatic and religious center that challenged the authority―and power―of both pope and emperor. At the height of Cola’s rule, a conspiracy of pope and barons forced him to flee the city and live for years as a fugitive until he was betrayed and taken to Avignon to stand trial as a heretic. Musto relates the dramatic story of Cola’s subsequent exoneration and return to central Italy as an agent of the new pope. But only weeks after he reestablished his government, he was slain by the Romans atop the Capitoline hill. In his exploration, Musto examines every known document pertaining to Cola’s life, including papal, private, and diplomatic correspondence rarely used by earlier historians. With his intimate knowledge of historical Rome―its streets and ruins, its churches and palaces, from the busy Tiber riverfront to the lost splendor of the Capitoline―he brings a cinematic flair to this fascinating historical narrative.

Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age

Biographies & Memoirs

Musto, Ronald G.

Historical

University of California Press

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Liberation Theologies: A Research Guide (Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 507)

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

Presents a historical account of the continuous peacemaking efforts of the Roman Catholic Church from gospel times to the present

The Catholic Peace Tradition

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Orbis Books

This book is a history of the peace tradition in the Roman Catholic Church from the time of the Gospels to the twentieth century. Its purpose is to show that there is a continuing, unbroken, and self-sustaining stream within Catholicism from the martyrs and pacifists of the early church to John XXIII and the peacemakers of our time.

Christian Books & Bibles

Catholicism

Peace Books

Essays by James Beck, Melissa Meriam Bullard, Marilyn Manera Edelstein, Edward A. Gosselin, James Hankins, William V. Harris, Kenneth Jorgensen SJ, Dilwyn Knox, Jill Kraye, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Constance Jones Mathers, John Monfasani, John H. Mundy, Ronald G. Musto, Ronald Rainey, Steve Rappaport, Louise Rice, David Rosand, Leona Rostenberg, and Robert Somerville. 8 illustrations, index.

Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.

History

Monfasani, John

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Italica Press

Medieval Naples: A Documentary History: C.500-1400

Renaissance Naples: A Documentary History: C.1400-1600

The Digital Humanities: A Primer for Students and Scholars

The Digital Humanities is a comprehensive introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct research, organize materials, analyze, and publish findings. It summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers, administrators, and the public. Beginning with some definitions and a brief historical survey of the humanities, the book examines how humanists work, what they study, and how humanists and their research have been impacted by the digital and how, in turn, they shape it. It surveys digital humanities tools and their functions, the digital humanists' environments, and the outcomes and reception of their work. The book pays particular attention to both theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations for embarking on digital humanities projects. It places the digital humanities firmly within the historical traditions of the humanities and in the contexts of current academic and scholarly life.

Gardiner, Eileen

Reference

Cambridge University Press

American&nbsp;higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as&nbsp;corrupt,&nbsp;irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanities&nbsp;disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements,&nbsp;corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historical&nbsp;precedent -&nbsp;Henry VIII's&nbsp;dissolution&nbsp;of British monasteries in the 1530s - for&nbsp;his study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, and&nbsp;innovation -&nbsp;enabled&nbsp;monasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto applies this analogy to contemporary academia. Despite higher education's vital centrality to American culture and economy, a powerful, anti-liberal narrative is severely damaging its&nbsp;reputation&nbsp;among parents, voters, and politicians. Musto offers a comprehensive account of this narrative from the mid-twentieth century to the present, as well as a new set of arguments to counter criticisms and rebuild the image of higher education.

The Attack on Higher Education: The Dissolution of the American University

This volume traces the work of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorno, analyzing it through current methodological and theoretical frameworks. Questioning the current consensus, the book examines how the South as a cultural "other" began evolving over the fourteenth century, and reconsiders the nineteenth-century "Southern Question" concerning the Mezzogiorno’s history, culture and people and its lingering negative image in Europe and America. It also focuses on specific histories, authors and historiographical issues, and reviews how new understandings of the Mediterranean have begun to alter our perceptions of the South in a new global context and as the basis for new historical research.

Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)

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Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age

Liberation Theologies: A Research Guide (Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 507)

The Catholic Peace Tradition

The Catholic Peace Tradition

Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.

Medieval Naples: A Documentary History: C.500-1400

Renaissance Naples: A Documentary History: C.1400-1600

The Digital Humanities: A Primer for Students and Scholars

The Attack on Higher Education: The Dissolution of the American University

Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)