Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini


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Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini:

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, 1405–64, pope (1458–64), an Italian named Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini (often in Latin, Aeneas Silvius), renamed Pienza after him, b. Corsigniano; successor of Calixtus III.
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