Commentaries, Volume 1 Students & student organisations and strength in our homes

and strength in our homes

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Commentaries, Volume 1 Students & student organisations and strength in our homesThe Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405 1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. Originally an opponent of the papacy as well as something of a libertine,