Lives of the Popes, Volume 1, Antiquity (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

by Platina

2008 336 pages eng

Bartolomeo Platina (1421-1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head of the Vatican Library. A papal official under the humanist Pope Pius II, he was a member of the humanist academies of Cardinal Bessarion a…