[hprints-00683151, v2] Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pius II ... - Hprints.org

hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013
Abstract
This publication contains the Latin text and English translation of Enea Silvio
Piccolomini’s oration Audivi to the Council of Basle on May 15, 1436, concerning the
choice of venue for the reunion council between the Latin Church and the Greek
Church. The speaker argued for the city of Pavia in the territory of the Duke of
Milan. The context of the oration was marked by the tensions between conciliarism
and the papacy, between the European countries, and between the Italian powers
including the Papal State. Piccolomini used the occasion to demonstrate his
rhetorical skills and humanist learning to the council fathers. Apart from the main
subject, the oration touches upon issues that are of interest in other contexts, e.g.
the humanist debate on the origins of the Turks.
Subject terms: Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini; Æneas Silvius
Piccolomini; Pope Pius II; Pope Eugene IV; Pope Eugenius IV; Duke Filippo Maria
Visconti; Duke Philip Mary Visconti; Milan; Venice; Genoa; The Papacy; The Papal
States; Conciliarism; The Council of Basle; The Council of Basel; Pavia; The
Renaissance; Italian humanism; France; King Charles VII; origin of the Turks
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