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De gestis Concilii Basiliensis commentariorum libri II / Aeneas Sylvius Piccolominus (Pius II) ; edited and translated by Denys Hay and W.K. Smith.
LIBRA BX830 1431 .P5 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
- Series:
- Oxford medieval texts
- Standardized Title:
- Gestis Concilii Basiliensis. English & Latin
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Council of Basel (1431-1449 : Basel, Switzerland).
- Council of Basel.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 268 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1992, c1967.
- Summary:
- This lively, first-hand narrative of the turning-point in the affairs of the Council of Basle was written by Aeneas Sylvius (later Pope Pius II) during his unregenerate conciliar period. It provides us with an important contemporary account of the personalities and principles involved in the election of the anti-pope Felix V. Originally published in 1967, this volume offers the first critical edition and English translation of this work. Unavailable in recent years, it has now been revised by Denys Hay.
- Notes:
- Latin text and English translation on facing pages; introduction in English.
- "First published 1967; reissued with corrections 1992."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxvii]-xxxviii) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198222017
- OCLC:
- 27103612
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