The 'commentaries' of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy by Emily O'Brien

The 'commentaries' of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

Toronto Italian Studies

Emily O'Brien

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II's Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.In this book, Emily O'Brien positions Pius' expansive autobiogra...

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