The Pope's Elephant - Rilegato

Bedini, Silvio A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1879941414 ISBN 13: 9781879941410

Casa editrice: J S Sanders & Co, 1998

Riassunto

The court of Pope Leo X was famous for its excess, frivolity and impropriety. The pleasure-loving pontiff is known to have kept a menagerie of wild birds and beasts, his favorite of which was Hanno, a young white elephant from India, brought to Rome as a gift from the King of Portugal. In this ingenious tour de force of original scholarship, Silvo Bedini gives us an elephant's-back view of early modern Europe, and in so doing leaves us with the tantalizing suggestion that something so frivolous as a pet elephant might--by fueling the flames of the Protestent Reformation--have changed the course of world history.

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L'autore:

Silvio A. Bedini, Historian Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., served for many years as Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology (now the Nation Museum of American History) and then as the Smithsonian’s Keeper of the Rare Books. For many years he has been engaged in research in the Vatican museums, library and archives. He is the author of more than a dozen books.

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Book by Bedini Silvio A

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• Editore: J S Sanders & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1879941414
• ISBN 13: 9781879941410
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 302