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Pope Pius II (Latin: Pius PP. II, Italian: Pio II), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (Latin: Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death.
The Tale of Two Lovers (Latin: Historia de duobus amantibus) (1444) is a novel by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II. It is one of the earliest examples of an epistolary novel, full of erotic imagery. The first printed edition was published by Ulrich Zell in Cologne between 1467 and 1470.
Aeneas Silvius (said to have reigned 1110-1079 BC) [1] is the son of Silvius, in some versions grandson of Ascanius and great-grandson, grandson or son of Aeneas. He is the third in the list of the mythical kings of Alba Longa in Latium , and the Silvii regarded him as the founder of their house. [ 2 ]
[10] [11] Pope Pius II, his full name being Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, was named in relation to his Roman ancestry and refers to Aeneas Silvius, King of Alba Longa, from which the Amideis also claimed descent through the gens Julia. [12]
In 1405 Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Italian: Enea Silvio Piccolomini) was born in Corsignano, a Renaissance humanist born into an exiled Sienese family, who later became Pope Pius II. Once he became Pope, Piccolomini had the entire village rebuilt as an ideal Renaissance town and renamed it Pienza ("city of Pius"). [6]
The plot centers on the conclave of 1458, which took place five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks.The story material was sourced from a diary written by Silvius Aeneas Piccolomini, the only cardinal to ever record the secret proceedings of a papal conclave, and who was himself elected Pope Pius II in that Conclave.
During the Battle of Mohács (1687) Enea Silvio Piccolomini, now a lieutenant-general, with some of his cavalry regiments successfully counterattacked and stopped the attack of the numerically much superior Ottoman Sipahi cavalry, helping in saving the left-wing of the Habsburg army. In 1689 one of the Austrian campaigns was led by Piccolomini.
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance. University of Toronto Press. 2013. (419 pp.) The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance. Revised, 2nd edition. University of Toronto Press. 2011. (xx + 314 pp.) Humanism and the Northern Renaissance. (with M. McGlynn) Canadian Scholars' Press, 2000. (436 pp.) Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II).