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Biography of Pius, II
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Pius II (1405-1464) was pope from 1458 to 1464. He is remarkable for the contrast between his early life as a writer and poet of the Renaissance and his later life as a conservative pope. Pius II was born Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini (often in Latin,...


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Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Latin Aeneas Sylvius), (October 18, 1405 – August 14, 1464) was Pope from August 19, 1458 until his death in 1464. Pius II, "whose character reflects almost every tendency of the age in which he lived", was...


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Renaissance Quarterly
Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius: Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II).(Book review)
03/22/2007: 808 words, approx. 3 pages
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini. Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius: Selected Letters of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II). Trans. Thomas M. Izbicki, Gerald Christianson, and Philip Krey. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. xvi + 436 pp. index. bibl. $ 79.95....
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"Silence Means Consent".(role of Vatican and Pope Pius XII during World War II)
04/01/2001: 2,748 words, approx. 9 pages
Back in 1935, my father published in France a collection of articles by various hands entitled, Why Is The World Silent? They dealt with the kidnapping by Nazi agents, on Swiss soil, of the courageous Jewish journalist Hans Jacob. It was part of...
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Federico da Montefeltro has one of the most memorable noses in Western art. Thanks to the Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, whose portrait of Federico is a prize of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the abrupt crook of the duke’s profile is a staple of...
 


 

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