De Viris Illustribus and other biographical writings of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg.
Résumé
During the 1440s, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, at the time secretary and diplomat of Emperor Friedrich III, was intermittently working on a book which he himself called De Viris Illustribus. It comprises 43 biographies of varying length of eminent persons of his time, emperors, popes, dukes, cardinals, and others, many of whom he had met or seen in person. The work seems never to have been finished, and the last extant draft dates from 1447. Despite a number of errors, important omissions, and some bias, it gives a reasonably adequate description of the persons selected and provides a highly interesting picture of his age.
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