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Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)

By: Pope Pius II

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Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)

By: Pope Pius II

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-1464, elected Pope Pius II in 1458) was an important and enigmatic figure of the Renaissance as well as one of the most prolific writers and gifted stylists ever to occupy the papacy

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0813214424

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9780813214429

Europe (c.1400-1458)

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Europe (c.1400-1458)

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This popular text circulated widely in manuscript form and was printed in several editions between the late 15th and the early 18th centuries, in Latin, German, and Italian. The present volume represents the first time this work has been translated into English, bringing its colorful narrative to the attention of a wider audience. This edition also provides extensive footnotes, an appendix of rulers, and a lengthy introduction to Aeneas?s life and the context and relevance of this work.

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081322182X

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9780813221823

West Meets East

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II): Epistle to Mehmet II

By: Jaime Leaños

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West Meets East

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II): Epistle to Mehmet II

By: Jaime Leaños

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson's (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: "This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is only too obvious: the same political and religious concerns that drove Piccolomini to pen his letter are still applicable to today." Today's political climate is no different from that of the Fourteenth Century and that is why Leaños's work is so relevant in present time political rhetoric. Written in 1461, eight years after the Fall of Constantinople, Piccolomini's work is a lengthy oration invoking a crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Throughout approximately the 90 folios of this missive, which elucidates the superiority of the Bible over the Qur'ãn, Pius II attempts to convert the Sultan to Christianity by providing arguments from doctrine, scripture, history, classical literature, political thought, and reason. Leaños's work is extensive and his lucid study on one of the most famous rhetoricians, humanists, diplomats, and prelates of the Italian Renaissance, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, would benefit scholars and graduate students interested in the political-religious intersection between the West and the East.

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1882528697

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Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)

By: Pope Pius II

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Oration Against the Turks

By: Pope Pius II,D.P. Curtin

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Oration Against the Turks

By: Pope Pius II,D.P. Curtin

Following the fall of Constantinople, Pope Pius II called upon the various Christian powers to launch a military response against the Ottoman Turks. Refugees from the empire had fled into Italy and requested that the Pope place political pressure to launch a potential crusade to retake the city, and push the Ottomans out of the Balkans.

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Europe (c.1400-1458)

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Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius

Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius

Europe (c.1400-1458)

Europe (c.1400-1458)

West Meets East

West Meets East

Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius

Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius

Oration Against the Turks

Oration Against the Turks

Europe (c.1400-1458)

Europe (c.1400-1458)

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