Assassinations, Mercenaries, and Alfonso V of Aragon as Crusader King in the Thought of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, was the most outspoken humanist supporter of a fifteenth-century crusade after the fall of Constantinople. In his crusade writings from 1456–58, Piccolomini argued that that King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples was the ideal figure to lead the crus...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2021, Volume: 107, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-348 |
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Pius, II., Pope 1405-1464
/ Alfons, V., Aragonien, König 1396-1458
/ Depiction
/ Conquest of Constantinople (1453)
/ Crusades
/ Southern Italy (motif)
/ Politics
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBJ Italy KCB Papacy |
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Callixtus III
B Neapolitan humanism B Frederick III B Alfonso V B Crusade B Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini |
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| Summary: | Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, was the most outspoken humanist supporter of a fifteenth-century crusade after the fall of Constantinople. In his crusade writings from 1456–58, Piccolomini argued that that King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples was the ideal figure to lead the crusade, portraying Alfonso as a Spanish imperator whose qualities matched or exceeded even the Pope and the Emperor, using classical rhetoric popular with Neapolitan humanists like Bartolomeo Facio. Even after Alfonso's death, Piccolomini celebrated the king as an exemplary ruler whose Spanish virtues brought peace to Italy and Spain and which could have restored Constantinople and healed a politically divided respublica Christiana. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2021.0020 |
