Article: The Culture of the High Renaissance. Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome.(Review)

The Culture of the High Renaissance. Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome. By INGRID D. ROWLAND. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 384 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].

Rowland has traced the interrelationships among key humanists, financiers and cardinals comprising the entourage of the various popes in Renaissance Rome by exploring analogous facets in the life of one single man, Angelo Colocci. The resulting book is by no means, however, a monograph on this man's life and works. He is, rather, the fil rouge or vector leading Rowland's description of the profoundly nepotistic papacy from the Roman Academy in the days of Giulio ...

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