Commentaries: Commentaries, Books I-II (I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY, Band 1) - Hardcover

Buch 12 von 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Pius II

 
9780674011649: Commentaries: Commentaries, Books I-II (I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY, Band 1)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674011643 ISBN 13: 9780674011649
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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 of the 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 opponent 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 dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's 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's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Margaret Meserve is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Humanities and Faculty Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Marcello Simonetta is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674011643
ISBN 13 
9780674011649
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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