Pius II, "el più expeditivo pontefice" : : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, 1405-1464 / / edited by Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 117
• TeilnehmendeR: Martels, Z. R. W. M. von,; Vanderjagt, Arie Johan,
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt -- Enkyklios paideia in the Work of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann -- From Samarkand to Scythia: Reinventions of Asia in Renaissance Geography and Political Thought / Margaret Meserve -- Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Historiographer: Asia / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann -- The New Landesgeschichte: Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini on Austria and Bohemia / Rolando Montecalvo -- Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De Curialium Miseriis and Peter of Blois / Keith Sidwell -- Alltag an der Kurie: Papst Pius II. (1458-1464) im Spiegel Zeitgenössischer Berichte / Claudia Märtl -- Pius II and Francesco Sforza. The History of Two Allies / Marcello Simonetta -- Pius II and the Formation of the Ecclesiastical Institutions of Pienza / Giuseppe Chironi -- Reject Aeneas! Pius II on the Errors of his Youth / Thomas M. Izbicki -- 'More Matter and Less Art.' Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and the Delicate Balance Between Eloquent Words and Deeds / Zweder von Martels -- The Fruit of Love. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini about his Illegitimate Child / Zweder von Martels -- Index / Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt.