Oration ”Si essemus ipsi” of Pope Pius II (22 September 1463, Rome). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 4th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II; 74)
Résumé
In Summer 1463, an embassy from the Duke of Burgundy came to the pope to announce the duke’s promise of an important contingent of soldiers and of his personal participation in the crusade against the Turks. In a public consistory on 19 September, to which the pope had summoned the Italian envoys, the Burgundian embassy made a public announcement of Burgundy’s participation. The following day, the pope invited the Italian ambassadors to a meeting and asked for their contribution to the crusade. Except the Venetians, with whom the pope already had an understanding, the Italian envoys declined to make firm commitments to the great cause, not having received powers from their masters to do so. The pope then, naturally, praised the Venetians, requesting that the other Italian states fulfil the commitments made at Congress of Mantua in 1459. After the meeting, the Florentine ambassador asked for a private audience with the pope in which he advised the pope to desert the Venetians and to let them and Turks destroy each other, thus freeing Italy from the fear of both powers. In the speech, “Si essemus”, the pope politely but firmly rejected the Florentine proposal both on moral, military, and political grounds.
Mots clés
1463
Ottone Niccoloni
Crusades
Otto di Lapo
Renaissance rhetorics
15th century
Venezia
Firenze
Wars against the Turks
Papa Pio II
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Pope Pius II
Crusades against the Turks
Venice
Florence
Italy
Renaissance orations
Renaissance oratory
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