Pius II, 1405-1464 (Pope)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1405 - 1464
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Letters by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, late 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 191/ff. 1r-97v
Contents
The letters by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, have been published in several collections. Piccolomini was a relatively well-known writer in the fifteenth century, and among several other works of history, and autobiography, and a piece of erotic literature, he also collected and published a collection of his own letters. The arrangement of the letters contained here in MS 191 does not appear to follow the arrangment of any of the modern published editions, but the...
Dates:
late 15th century