基督教世界中的异教美德：西吉斯蒙多·马拉泰斯塔与意大利文艺复兴

1462年，教皇庇护二世进行了历史上唯一一次反向封圣，公开谴责一个活人。目标是里米尼之主西吉斯蒙多·马拉泰斯塔，他是佛罗伦萨文艺复兴时期艺术的赞助人。他被判在死后受尽折磨，在罗马的几个地方被焚烧成雕像。这个有教养的贵族做了什么才配得上这样的命运？
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance
In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate?

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