Pagan Virtue in a Christian World - Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance - Anthony F. D’elia - Hardback Bog - Harvard University Press -

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In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D’Elia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism.