Oration “Quamvis non sine magna” of Pope Pius II (19 October 1459, Mantua). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 5th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius; 46)

Michael Cotta-Schønberg (1)

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In the summer of 1459, delegations from all Italian and many other European powers arrived in Mantua where Pope Pius II’s congress on a crusade against the Turks was to be held. The congress began its work on 26 September. One of the few princes not represented in Mantua then, Duke Louis I of Savoy, dispatched his ambassadors after that event. They were received by the pope with a correct, but rather brief and cool oration.

Mots clés: Duke of Savoy; Renaissance rhetorics; 1459; Papa Pio II; Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini; Æneas Silvius Piccolomini; Pope Pius II; Renaissance orations; Responses to ambassadors; Savoy; 15th century; Crusades against the Turks; Renaissance oratory; Congress of Mantua; Louis I

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Michael Cotta-Schønberg. Oration “Quamvis non sine magna” of Pope Pius II (19 October 1459, Mantua). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 5th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius; 46). 2019. ⟨hal-01184170⟩