Commentaries - Books Iii-Iv

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Meserve is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Humanities and Faculty Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Marcello Simonetta is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Margaret Simonetta Meserve, II Pius, Pius II
• Assisted by: Margaret Meserve (Editor), Meserve Margaret (Editor), Marcello Simonetta (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780674024892
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02489-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 210 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; Tatti Renaissance Library (HUP) CONTINS PASS TO - [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, HISTORY / World, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, Biography: religious & spiritual, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Biography: religious and spiritual