In this connection, it might be worth consulting Erasmus' satire 'Julius
exclusus'.
Cheers, Jon Quitslund
> Try GIULIANO DELLA ROVERE aka Julius II (ascended to the papacy 1503),
> patron of Michaelangelo and Raphael, sometimes known as 'the terrible' and
> 'The Warrior Pope' --notably, for his campaigns to restore the papal
> states, post Borgia.
>
>
> At 08:05 PM 1/26/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hello! I'm suddenly wondering about thesources and cultural-historical
> >resonance of Archimago's impersonation of RCK, in particular his dressing as
> >(transforming into?) a knight ; provided we read Arch. as a priestly figure
> >or --better-- as a monk or friar, does anyone know of contemporary European
> >historical or past and present fictional characters with distinctly
> >ecclesiastical (Catholic or Prot or even Judaic and Muslim) establishment
> >identities who dress as warriors? Including, perhaps, images of an armored
> >Pope? I understand that Arch. is impersonating the One True Faith wrapped
> >in its Paul-to-Ephesians spiritual armor, thus is a covert-recusant Catholic
> >with all that implied politically in 1580's England, but is there another
> >reference here?
> >
> >--Tom Herron
> >
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