Joseph Gill
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Former Professor of Byzantine Greek Language and of Byzantine History, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, 1946β67. Author of The Council of Florence and others.
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Pius II was an outstanding Italian humanist and astute politician who as pope (reigned 1458β64) tried to unite Europe in a crusade against the Turks at a time when they threatened to overrun all of Europe. He wrote voluminously about the events of his day. Enea Silvio Piccolomini was born in theβ¦
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