Oration “Si mihi” of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (25 March 1455, Wiener Neustadt). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Final Version. (Collected Orations of Pope Pius II; 24)
Abstract
Among the important items on the agenda of the imperial Diet of Wiener Neustadt, February to April 1455, was a military reponse to the Turkish war of aggression and the urgently needed military aid to Hungary, the European frontier state directly facing the Turks. The Hungarian delegation arrived after the diet had opened on 25 February. It was given a special reception at which the Bishop of Várad, Janos Vitéz, gave the oration “Pulsatis maerore”, followed by an oration on behalf of the emperor, the “Si mihi”, given by Bishop Enea Silvio Piccolomini. The oration contains little new in relation to Piccolomini’s former orations on the crusade against the Turks.
Keywords
The Diet of Wiener Neustadt 1455
1455
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Crusade against the Turks
Christian ethics of war
Hungary
Renaissance orations
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Pope Pius II
Kaiser Friedrich III (Habsburg)
Emperor Frederick III (Habsburg)
Papa Pio II
Reichstag Wiener Neustadt 1455
15th century
Renaissance oratory
Renaissance rhetorics
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