Oration “Tritum est sermone” of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (January 1437, Rome). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 7th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pius II; 12)

Michael Cotta-Schønberg (1)

1 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet

In January 1447, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, on a mission from Emperor Friedrich III to Pope Eugenius IV, requested a papal audience in which he would, on behalf of emperor, respond to a number of complaints against the emperor sent to the pope by the Regent of Hungary, Janos Hunyadi. The Hungarians demanded the return to Hungary of the Boy King Ladislaus, Saint Stephen’s Crown, and a number of cities and castles on Hungarian territory, occupied by the emperor’s troops. In his response, Piccolomini provided a well-reasoned defense of the emperor’s position.

Mots clés: Kaiser Friedrich III Habsburg; Jan Hunyadi; Janos Huniad; Pope Eugene IV; Pope Eugenius IV; Pope Pius II; Æneas Silvius Piccolomini; Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini; Emperor Frederick III Habsburg; King Ladislaus Postumus; The Holy Roman Empire; Austria; Hungary; Fifteenth century; Renaissance orations; King Ladislaus the Posthumous; Renaissance oratory; Renaissanc rhetorics; 1447; Papa Pio II; Papa Eugenio IV

Domaines: Histoire

Michael Cotta-Schønberg. Oration “Tritum est sermone” of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (January 1437, Rome). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 7th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pius II; 12). 2019. ⟨halshs-00947093⟩