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Item Number: 116963
Title: The Lion's Ear : Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music
Author: Cummings, Anthony M
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780472117918
Description: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 300pp. illus., 10 color plates. Summary: For centuries, the Renaissance papacy has been celebrated for its generous patronage of the arts. Pope Leo X, son of the legendary Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo "the Magnificent"), is widely understood to be one of the greatest patrons of music in European history and one of the emblematic figures of the Italian Renaissance. The Lion's Ear is the first full-length scholarly treatment of the musical patronage of a Renaissance pope and provides an evocative picture of the musical life of the pre-Reformation papacy. The various uses of music in early-modern Rome- music for public festivals, for the liturgical ceremonies of the Sistine Chapel, to accompany daily dining and festive banqueting, for the celebration of saints' feast days and for theatrical performances- are vividly described and analyzed and give a detailed understanding of the place of music in the life of one of its most important early-modern benefactors. Art historians, ecclesiastical historians, and specialists from many other disciplines have long produced scholarly findings useful for understanding the pre-Reformation papacy, its alliance with the Italian Renaissance, and the extraordinary artistic legacy of that alliance. Anthony M. Cummings complements that scholarship with his thorough and imaginative account of music's relationship with that vibrant and fascinating culture, the first by a specialist in the musical life of early-modern Europe.
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