Noun
Italian pope from 1458 to 1464 who is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to lead a crusade against the Turks (1405-1464)
Source: WordNetIn 1459, for instance, Pope Pius II left the regulation of fasts to the discretion of the prior general; Soreth accordingly sought until his death in 1471 to restore the primitive asceticism. Source: Internet
In 1459, Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Paracelsus later taught. Source: Internet
In November 1463, Pope Pius II tried to organize the crusade against the Ottomans, similar to what Pope Nicholas V and Pope Calixtus III had tried to do before him. Source: Internet
Pope Pius II inaugurated an unusual urban project, perhaps the first city planning exercise in modern Europe. Source: Internet
Piccolomini published it under the name of scribe Gobellinus, who was then misattributed as the author, a natural mistake because Pius II chose to write Commentaries from the third-person perspective. Source: Internet
It would only last for a short period of time, as Pope Pius II declared the Basel Compacts to be invalid in 1462. Source: Internet