'Pius II, 'el più expeditivo pontifice' : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464)
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'Pius II, 'el più expeditivo pontifice' : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464)
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 117）
Brill, 2003
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"This volume finds its origin in a workshop which was held at the University of Groningen on December 12-13, 1997, entitled 'Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a transitional figure between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
1. Enkyklios paideia in the Work of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Benedikt Konrad Vollmann
2. From Samarkand to Scythia: Reinventions of Asia in Renaissance Geography and Political Thought, Margaret Meserve
3. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Historiographer: Asia, Benedikt Konrad Vollmann
4. The New Landesgeschichte: Aeneas Silvius on Austria and Bohemia, Rolando Montecalvo
5. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De curialium miseriis and Peter of Blois, Keith Sidwell
6. Alltag an der Kurie: Papst Pius II. (1458-1464) im Spiegel Zeitgenoessischer Berichte, Claudia Martl
7. Pius II and Francesco Sforza: The History of Two Allies, Marcello Simonetta
8. Pius II and the Formation of the Ecclesiastical Institutions of Pienza, Giuseppe Chironi
9. 'Reject Aeneas!' Pius II on the Errors of his Youth, Thomas M. Izbicki
10. 'More Matter and Less Art': Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and the Delicate Balance between Eloquent Words and Deeds, Zweder von Martels
11. The Fruit of Love: Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini about his Illegitimate Child, Zweder von Martels
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