Oration "Quam laetus quamque secundus" of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (9 March 1452, Rome). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 7th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II; 18)

Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II; 18

Michael Cotta-Schønberg (1)

1 RSLIS - Royal School of Library and Information Science

On 8 March 1452 Emperor Friedrich III with his betrothed wife, Princess Leonora of Portugal, and a large and brilliant entourage arrived at the gates of Rome for his imperial coronation. The following day, he entered Rome and paid reverence to Pope Nicolaus V in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica. On this occasion, the high-ranking imperial diplomat, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Bishop of Siena, was commanded to deliver an oration, the “Quam laetus quamque secundus”. In his speech, Piccolomini saluted the pope in the name of the emperor, spoke on the importance of the occasion, and formally introduced the principal members of the emperor’s party.

Mots clés: Renaissance orations; 1452; Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; Pope Nicolaus V; Pope Nicholas V; Kaiser Friedrich III Habsburg; Emperor Frederick III (Habsburg); Empress Leonora of Portugal; Holy Roman Empire; Imperial coronations; King Ladislaus Posthumus (Habsburg); Pope Pius II; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini; Papa Pio II; Papa Niccolò V; Renaissance rhetorics; Renaissance oratory; König Ladislaus Postumus (Habsburg)

Domaines: Histoire

Michael Cotta-Schønberg. Oration "Quam laetus quamque secundus" of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (9 March 1452, Rome). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 7th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II; 18). 2019. ⟨hal-01058484⟩