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> It's also an interesting historical anecdote about the excesses of the Catholic Church during that period. The author's perspective on those excesses baffles
by clock_tower 10y ago
> It's also an interesting historical anecdote about the excesses of the Catholic Church during that period.
The author's perspective on those excesses baffles me. In any other context, seen from a Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or atheist perspective, the Renaissance Papacy was obviously in the wrong; but now we're supposed to cheer for them because they funded art and cookery?
- Mikeb85 10y agoNothing I see in the article is cheering on the papacy, but rather the genius of a chef who happened to have the papacy as his patron.
- clock_tower 10y agoWhen the article gushes with praise for the cooks and artists employed by the Renaissance Papacy, and condemns the Counter-Reformation Papacy for no longer making use of them -- using language like "a rare moment of jollity before the flogging of whores and adulterers began", "no pagan pleasures in the Vatican while the red slippers covered the toes of this pontiff", or "like asking Michelangelo to paint all four walls of the Sistine Chapel in a single coat of magnolia" -- it certainly sounds like praising the Renaissance Papacy to me.