Commentaries: volume 2
Auteur :
Pius II
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674024892
Date de publication :
1 nov. 2007
Dimensions :
20,3 x 13,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text and an updated translation.