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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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.