Collected Letters of Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. Vol. 5: Letters 1448-1452 (nos. 226-283). Preliminary version

Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg (1)

1 The Royal Library

The present volume contains Enea Silvio Piccolomini's personal letters from the years 1448-1452, altogether 57 letters. These letters cover a period when he became Bishop of Trieste and was later transferred to the See of Siena. During this period, he acted as a senior imperial diplomat and councillor, being sent on important missions to the King Alfonso V in Naples, to the pope and to Bohemia.

Mots clés: Pope Pius II; Papa Pio II; Papst Pius II; Kaiser Friedrich III (Habsburg); Emperor Frederick III (Habsburg); Renaissance humanism; Letters; Letter collections; Pope Nicolaus V; Pope Nicholas V

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. 5: Letters 1448-1452 (nos. 226-283). Preliminary version. 2024. ⟨hal-04389937⟩