Pius II, "el più expeditivo pontefice" : : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, 1405-1464 / / edited by Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt.
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...
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Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 117 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003. |
Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Language: | English German Latin |
Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 117. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
Notes: | "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. |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material / Enkyklios paideia in the Work of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini / From Samarkand to Scythia: Reinventions of Asia in Renaissance Geography and Political Thought / Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Historiographer: Asia / The New Landesgeschichte: Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini on Austria and Bohemia / Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De Curialium Miseriis and Peter of Blois / Alltag an der Kurie: Papst Pius II. (1458-1464) im Spiegel Zeitgenössischer Berichte / Pius II and Francesco Sforza. The History of Two Allies / Pius II and the Formation of the Ecclesiastical Institutions of Pienza / Reject Aeneas! Pius II on the Errors of his Youth / 'More Matter and Less Art.' Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and the Delicate Balance Between Eloquent Words and Deeds / The Fruit of Love. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini about his Illegitimate Child / Index / |
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Summary: | 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 Märtl, Margaret Meserve, Rolando Montecalvo, Keith Sidwell, Marcello Simonetta, and Benedikt Konrad Vollmann. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004247645 |
ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt. |