Collected Letters of Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Vol. 4: Letters 1445-1447 (nos. 166-225) . Preliminary version. 2023.

Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg (1)

1 The Royal Library

The present volume contains Enea Silvio Piccolomini's personal letters from the years 1444-1447, altogether 45 letters. These letters cover a period when he became an imperial diplomat, being sent on important imperial missions to the pope and to Milan, was instrumental in the process leading Germany to recognise the Roman papacy, lost his sexual powers, entered clerical orders, and was appointed Bishop of Trieste.

Mots clés: Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Pope Pius II; Papst Pius II; Papa Pio II; Church schism 1438 ff.; Emperor Frederich II (Habsburg); Kaiser Friedrich II (Habsburg); Epistolae familares; Epistolae saeculares.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg. Collected Letters of Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Vol. 4: Letters 1445-1447 (nos. 166-225) . Preliminary version. 2023.. 2023. ⟨hal-04233614⟩