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Commentaries Books I-II

by Pius II

  • Hardback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 13.3 x 21 x 2.7 cm

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The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. Originally an oponent of the papacy as well as something of a libertine, Aeneas eventually reconciled himself with the Roman church and became a priest, then a cardinal. Finally he was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicted his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius' "Commentaries", the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius' lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.
Commentaries Books I-II and Pius II Books III-IV
Pius II Books III-IVCommentaries Books I-II

  • Author

    Pius II

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    February 2004

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    13.3 x 21 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674011649

  • ISBN-10

    0674011643

  • Eden Code

    1192726

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