Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy

by T.C. Price Zimmermann

Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described--the wars of France, Germany, and Spain, and the sack of Rome. He used the information he gleaned from his contacts to carry on an extensive correspondence that became a kind of proto-journalism. With...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691043787
• ISBN13: 9780691043784
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.8" x 10.0"