Collected Orations of Pope Pius II. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Vol. 1: General introduction. Final Version. 2024.
Abstract
During his career as an official at the Council of Basel, as secretary and later top diplomat at the imperial court, as papal envoy, as cardinal, and as pope, Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II gave a large number of orations and responses to ambassadors which taken together document his literary and oratorical gifts and throw valuable light on the political and ecclesiastical processes of the second third of the 15th century. Today, 80 of his orations and diplomatic responses are known to be extant, in a considerable number of manuscripts kept in European libraries. Of these, 50 were published collectively by G.D. Mansi in 1755-1759, the only previous comprehensive edition. In the present edition, nine of Pius’ orations are published for the first time.
Keywords
Women
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
15th century
Pius II
Marriage
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
1436-1464
Papa Pio II
Renaissance orations
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Sexuality
Papal supremacy
Renaissance
Papacy
Turks
Renaissance rhetorics
Crusades
Holy Roman Empire
Renaissance oratory
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