Collected Orations of Pope Pius II. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta- Schönberg. Vol. 7: Orations 29-42 (1458-1459). 4th version

Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg (1)

1 Royal Danish Library

Volume 7 of the Collected Orations of Pope Pius II contains fourteen orations held by Pius II in the first year after his election. Ten of them are responses to ambassadors presenting their prince’s obedience to the new pope. One is an oration to the papal court and ambassadors in Rome on summoning a Congress in Manta to discuss a crusade against the Turks. Two orations were addressed to the government of the City of Siena, one on the occasion of the bestowal of the papal Golden Rose on Siena, and another in response to certain political concessions by the city government to the pope. And the final oration was a reply to a princess from Milan who had addressed a Latin oration to him.

Mots clés: The Golden Rose; 1458-1459; Renaissance rhetorics; Emperor Frederick III (Habsburg); Kaiser Friedrich III (Habsburg); Renaissance oratory; Siena; Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini; Pope Pius II; Declarations of obedience to the pope; Hippolyta Sforza; Renaissance orations; 15th century; Papal orations; Papal diplomacy; Papa Pio II; Ippolita Sforza; Responses to ambassadors

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg. Collected Orations of Pope Pius II. Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta- Schönberg. Vol. 7: Orations 29-42 (1458-1459). 4th version. Scholars' Press. 2019, 9786138917724. ⟨hal-01589562⟩