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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Auteur principal: Heil, John-Paul (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2021
Dans: The catholic historical review
Année: 2021, Volume: 107, Numéro: 3, Pages: 325-348
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Pius, II., Pape 1405-1464 / Alfons, V., Aragonien, König 1396-1458 / Représentation / Prise de Constantinople (1453) / Croisades / Sud de l'Italie (motif) / Politique
Classifications IxTheo:CG Christianisme et politique
KAG Réforme; humanisme; Renaissance
KBJ Italie
KCB Papauté
Sujets non-standardisés:B Callixtus III
B Neapolitan humanism
B Frederick III
B Alfonso V
B Crusade
B Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1534-0708
Contient:Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cat.2021.0020