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Carpentras

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Carpentras

French town in the département of Vaucluse, on the River Auzun, and on the Carpentras Canal, 21 km/13 mi northeast of Avignon; population (1990) 24,200. It has a textile industry, tourism, and an important market for fruit and vegetables. Carpentras has a late-Gothic church (1405–1519), an 18th-century synagogue, and an 18th-century aqueduct. There is also a Roman triumphal arch.

Carpentras was the capital of the former province of Comtat Venaissin.



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Giuliano's own interests in France, including the bishopric of Carpentras and archbishopric of Avignon, as well as his legations there in the later 1470s, meant that he kept French culture in his sights, even though he was not initially a promoter of the royal cause.
Death and the Cardinal: The Two Bodies of Guillaume d'Estouteville [*] by GILL, MEREDITH J. / Renaissance Quarterly
Armstrong's comments on text-image interaction in his discussion of the Carpentras manuscript of the Concorde des deux langages, particularly the description of the miniature depicting the interior of the Temple of Venus, are fascinating but problematic.
Technique and Technology: Script, Print, and Poetics in France, ... by SCHWARTZ, JEROME / Renaissance Quarterly
The same flattering interpretation colors the analysis of Jacopo Sadoleto's various letters to colleagues, patrons, and dependents at the Curia (including three letters to Clement himself), after he wisely left the city just prior to the Sack to take up residence at his bishopric at Carpentras.
Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome by McClure, George W. / Renaissance Quarterly
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