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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.

Commentaries: Volume 2

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    A Hardback by Pius II, Margaret Meserve, Marcello Simonetta

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 1 November 2007
      ISBN-13 9780674024892
      978-0674024892
      ISBN-10 0674024893
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      Biography: religious and spiritual General and world history

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      Book Synopsis
      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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