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Commentaries, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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Commentaries, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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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 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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