Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome

Contents: Volume I: Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy – Sperulo’s People, Biography of a Network – The Golden Age Restored: Literary Patronage in Renaissance Rome – The Poet and «the Prince»: Francesco Sperulo and Cesare Borgia – The Poet and «the Prince of Painters»: Building the Villa Medici – Sperulo on Love: Elegies and Hymns – Bishop of San Leone: Two Orations for Pope Clement VII – Sed durus hic et sui iudicii ubique: Sperulo and Imitatio – Volume II: Texts, Translations and Commentaries – Francesco Sperulo and Cesare Borgia – Building the Villa Medici – Elegies and Hymns – Two Orations for Pope Clement VII – Miscellaneous Works – Catalogue of Manuscripts.