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Collected Letters of Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Vol. 1: General Introduction and Letters 1432-1441 (nos. 1-33). Preliminary version.

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Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) was one of the great letter writers of his century. In the course of his life (as a secretary to bishops, cardinals, an antipope and the emperor), he wrote and received a great many personal letters and, during his years at the imperial chancery, he handled the official correspondence of the emperor and his chancellor and drafted many of their letters. A large part of this correspondence is extant today. It is a unique source of information not only on Piccolomini's own extraordinary life but also on important political processes, ecclesiastical affairs, and social developments in the Renaissance. A complete edition of Piccolomini's correspondence has not yet been published. Wolkan's edition (1909-1918) is incomplete, covering only the years from 1432 to 1454, but has ever since been an invaluable source for researchers on Piccolomini in particular and the Renaissance in general. As for translations, only limited anthologies have been published so far.
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Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg. Collected Letters of Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Vol. 1: General Introduction and Letters 1432-1441 (nos. 1-33). Preliminary version.. 2022. ⟨hal-03625579⟩

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