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Pius II, Pont. Max.

Epistolae familiares (ed. Ambrosius Archintus and Johannes Vinzalius).

 

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a1r [Title-page.] ‘Epistole et uarii tractatus Pii Pont. Max. dum esset in minoribus'.

a2r ‘Numerus et ordo epistolarum'.

a6v Archintus, Ambrosius: [Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Peruenerunt nuper ad manus meas . . .’ Dated Milan, 27 Nov. 1496. See Haebler, ‘Die Drucke der Briefsammlungen', 148.

2a1r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistolae familiares. Edited by Ambrosius Archintus and Johannes Vinzalius. This edition of Pius's letters opens with a letter addressed to Aeneas Sylvius by Cardinal Julianus Cesarini (Wolkan I no. 45). In relation to Wolkan this edition follows the same order as P‑318.

g6v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistola de fortuna [addressed to] Procopius de Rabenstein. ‘Somnium de fortuna'. Dated Vienna, 26 June 1444. See P‑314.

h4r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Kaspar Schlick. See P‑304.

h4v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Marianus Sozzinus. See P‑304.

h5r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia [dedicated to] Marianus Sozzinus. ‘Hystoria de Eurialo et Lucretia se amantibus'. See P‑304. Dated Vienna, 3 July 1444. See P‑303.

k6v Pius II, Pont. Max.: Dialogus contra Bohemos atque Thaboritas de sacra communione corporis Christi [addressed to] Cardinal Johannes Carvajal. Dated Wiener Neustadt, 21 Aug. 1451. See P‑309.

o4r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Descriptio urbis Viennensis. See P‑316.

o4v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De curialium miseria [addressed to] Johannes de Eych. Dated Bruck a. Mur, 31 Jan. 1445 [30 Nov. 1444]. See P‑301.

s1r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistolae in Cardinalatu editae. Incipit: ‘[D]iuo imperatori Friderico augusto domino suo . . . Quod iam dudum optasti procurastique . . .’ On Pius's letters see VL VII 634-69, at 640-1.

z4v Pius II, Pont. Max.: [Epistolae in Pontificatu editae.] ‘Respondet Francorum regi super materia episcopatus Tornacensis'. Incipit: ‘[P]ius episcopus seruus . . . Que ad nos de conditionibus . . .’

[con]3v Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Oratio habita in conuentu Mantuano'. Incipit: ‘[C]um bellum hodie aduersus impiam Thurcorum gentem pro dei honore . . .’ Dated 26 Sept. 1459. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 905-14; Pii II P. M. orationes, ed. Mansi, II 9-29.

[rum]1r Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla de profectione in Thurcos et de prerogatiuis eiusdem passagii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ius episcopus . . . Ezechielis prophete magni sententia est . . .’ Explicit: psallat in secula seculorum Dated Rome, 22 Oct. 1463. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 914-23.

[rum]4v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia Friderici III. Incipit: ‘[S]olent plerique omnnes beatissime pater maxime pontifex . . .’ Pii II P. M. orationes, ed. Mansi, I 336-46 no. xvi; on his orations see also VL (2nd edn) VII 634-69, at 649-51.

B4r Poggius Florentinus: [Letter addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De scola Epycure factionis que regnat in Theutonia'. The recipient of Poggius's letter is actually Nicolaus Niccoli. Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, I 128-35 no. 46.

B5r Poggius Florentinus: [Letter addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De condemnatione Hieronymi heretici in concilio Constantien[si].’ Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, II 157-63 (IV,6).

B6r [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus: [Letter addressed to] Bindactius Ricassolanus. ‘De crudeli amoris exitu Guisgardi et Sigismundi Tancredi Solernitanorum principis filie'. Incipit: ‘Cum sepius mecum egisses ut fabulam illam . . .’ Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 954-5; Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, 247.

B6r [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni]: De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. Incipit: ‘Tancredus fuit princeps Salernitanus . . .’ Explicit: ambos sepeliri fecit A Latin translation from Boccaccio's Decameron IV,1 by Leonardus Brunus. See P‑318.

C3r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Tractatulus de educatione liberorum [addressed to] Ladislas Posthumus, King of Bohemia and Hungary. Dated Wiener Neustadt, Feb. 1450. See P‑318.

D8v [Pius II, Pont. Max.: Eicosastichon de Maria.] Incipit: ‘[V]irgo Theutonicis multum celebrata sacellis | Mater et ipsa dei mater et ipsa hominis'; 10 elegiac distichs. See P‑318.

Imprint

Imprint: Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 10 Dec. 1496. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a ²a–z & [con] [rum] A–C⁶ D⁸.

Illustrations: Woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: ip00721000

Hain: HC *157;

Goff: Goff P‑721;

BMC: BMC VI 770;

Proctor: Pr 6032;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑524; CIBN P‑416; Sack, Freiburg, 2890; Sheppard 5007.

LCN: 14016048

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