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For what, in all the world, is more common than love? What state, what little town, what family lacks examples? Who, that has reached his thirtieth year, has not endured some villainy for love's sake? I conjecture from myself whom love has sent into a thousand perils, and I thank the Gods above that I have a thousand times escaped the ambushes prepared for me; more fortunate in my star than Mars whom Vulcan took with Venus, and caught them in an iron net, and displayed them, as a laughing-stock, to the other Gods.

Pope Pius II

Pope Pius II

Pope Pius II

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Born: October 18, 1405

Died: August 14, 1464 (aged 58)

Bio: Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini was Pope from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464. He was born at Corsignano in the Sienese territory of a noble but impoverished family.

Known for:

The Tale of Two Lovers
Reject Aeneas, accept Pius
Storia di due amanti
Epistola ad Mahumetem

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