Commentaries - 9780674011649

The Commentaries of 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 (Author): Pius Ii
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 18, 2004
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674011643
• | ISBN-13: 9780674011649