Commentaries, Volume 3 Books V-VII |
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| Author:
| Pius II, Pius |
| Editor:
| Meserve, Margaret |
| Series title: | The I Tatti Renaissance Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-05838-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2018 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Commentaries by Pius II (1405-1464)--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 based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.
Commentaries by Pius II (1405-1464)--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 based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.