Commentaries - 9780674024892

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.

• | By (Author): Pius Ii
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674024893
• | ISBN-13: 9780674024892