Pius 2nd, "el Più Expeditivo Pontefice"

Pius 2nd, Author: Zweder R. W. M. von Martels
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004131903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
This book contains eleven essays on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), humanist, author, courtier, inveterate traveller, conciliarist and then papalist, priest, bishop and finally pope under the name Pius II (1458-1464), urban architect of Pienza, grand patron of the arts, and would-be Crusader. Contributors include: Giuseppe Chironi, Thomas M. Izbicki, Zweder von Martels, Claudia Martl, Margaret Meserve, Rolando Montecalvo, Keith Sidwell, Marcello Simonetta, and Benedikt Konrad Vollmann.