Pius II, "el più expeditivo pontefice": Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464)

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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. Preface vii Contributors ix 'Enkyklios paideia' in the Work of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann 1 From Samarkand to Scythia: Reinventions of Asia in Renaissance Geography and Political Thought / Margaret Meserve 13 Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Historiographer: 'Asia' / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann 41 The New 'Landesgeschichte': Aeneas Silvius on Austria and Bohemia / Rolando Montecalvo 55 Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's 'De curialium miseriis' and Peter of Blois / Keith Sidwell 87 Alltag an der Kurie: Papst Pius II. (1458-1464) im Spiegel Zeitgenössischer Berichte / Claudia Märtl 107 Pius II and Francesco Sforza. The History of Two Allies / Marcello Simonetta 147 Pius II and the Formation of the Ecclesiastical Institutions of Pienza / Giuseppe Chironi 171 'Reject Aeneas!' Pius II on the Errors of his Youth / Thomas M. Izbicki 187 'More Matter and Less Art.' Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and the Delicate Balance between Eloquent Words and Deeds / Zweder von Martels 205 The Fruit of Love. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini about his Illegitimate Child / Zweder von Martels 229 Index 249