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Pope Pius II (Aeneus Sylvius Piccolomini) (1405 - 1458 - 1464 (59))
Sienese Renaissance Pope
Link to Popes of the Renaissance
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Portrait by Justo da Ghent (?) (Palazzo Ducale, Urbino) |
Bust of Pope Pius II in the Sala delle Arti Liberali in the Vatican. Attributed to Paolo di Taccone (aka Paolo Romano).
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There are also lots of frescos showing Pius II doing important things in the Piccolomini Library in the Siena Duomo.
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The not very noticeable tomb of Pius II high up on the north wall of the nave in Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome (on the busy Corso Vittore Emanuele, and better known as the setting for Act I of Puccini's opera Tosca).
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