Author
Pius II
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
February 2004
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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.
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Author
Pius II
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
February 2004
Weight
568g
Page Count
384
Dimensions
133 x 210 x 27 mm
ISBN
9780674011649
ISBN-10
0674011643
Eden Code
1192726
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Author/Creator: Pius II
ISBN: 9780674011649
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: February 2004
Weight: 568g
Dimensions: 133 x 210 x 27 mm
Eden Code: 1192726
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