Pius II, 'el più expeditivo pontefice' : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464) /

Pius II, 'el più expeditivo pontefice' : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464) /

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Imprint:	Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Description:	viii, 260 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 117
Subject:	Pius -- II, -- Pope, -- 1405-1464. Pius -- II, -- Pope, -- 1405-1464 Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Church history -- Middle Ages.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4967211

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Varying Form of Title:	Pius 2nd, 'el più expeditivo pontefice'
Other authors / contributors:	Martels, Z. R. W. M. von. Vanderjagt, Arie Johan.
ISBN:	9004131906 (alk. paper)
Notes:	"This volume finds its origin in a workshop which was held at the University of Groningen on December 12-13, 1997, entitled 'Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Transitional Figure between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Summary:	This book contains eleven essays on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), humanist, author, courtier, inveterate traveller, conciliarist and then papalist, priest, bishop and finally pope under the name Pius II (1458-1464), urban architect of Pienza, grand patron of the arts, and would-be Crusader.Contributors include: Giuseppe Chironi, Thomas M. Izbicki, Zweder von Martels, Claudia Märtl, Margaret Meserve, Rolando Montecalvo, Keith Sidwell, Marcello Simonetta, and Benedikt Konrad Vollmann.
Item Description:	"This volume finds its origin in a workshop which was held at the University of Groningen on December 12-13, 1997, entitled 'Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Transitional Figure between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'"--Pref.
Physical Description:	viii, 260 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9004131906