The Historian, January 1st, 1994
By Christine Shaw. (Cambridge: Blackweu, 1993. Pp. 360. $39.95.
Julius II occupies a prominent niche in the history of the Renaissance papacy. One of the most ambitious--and by some standards successful--of pre-modern popes, his name has been linked with the strengthening of the papacy's political power in Italy and with a vast building program intended to beautify Rome, an enterprise which brought him into a close working relationship with Michelangelo, Raphael, and several other artists of his day But in addition to his not inconsiderable accomplishments, Julius had the responsibility of ...
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