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Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II's Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.
In this book, Emily O'Brien positions Pius' expansive autobiographical text within that century's contentious debate over ecclesiastical sovereignty. Presenting the Commentaries as Pius' response to the crisis of authority, legitimacy, and relevance that was engulfing the Renaissance papacy, she shows how the Commentaries function as both an aggressive assault on the papal monarchy's chief opponents and a systematic defense of Pius's own troubled pontificate and his pre-papal career. Illustrating how the language, imagery, and ideals of secular power inform Pius' apologetic self-portrait, The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy demonstrates the role that Pius and his writings played in the evolution of the Renaissance papacy.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. An Institution in Crisis: the Papal Monarchy on the Eve of Pius's Pontificate
Chapter 2. The Conciliar Crisis in the Career of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and the Pontificate of Pope Pius II
Chapter 3. Papal Sovereignty and the Challenge of the Princes: the Experience of Aeneas and Pius
Chapter 4. Pius II and the Triumph over Conciliarism: A New Reading of the Commentaries
Chapter 5. The Triumph over the Princes and the Triumph of a Prince
Chapter 6. Portraits of Princes in the Portrait of Pius II
Conclusion
