Lives of the Popes, Paul II: An Intermediate Reader of Renaissance Latin

The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies acknowledged this problem a few years ago by setting up a Committee on the Teaching of Neo-Latin, but much more needs to be done, especially at the beginning and intermediate levels. The biography presented here therefore offers an unusual opportunity to gain insight into one of the more notorious incidents in the history of humanism and into how a biographer can write a responsible account of the life of someone who had had a profoundly negative impact on him. [...]instructors who do not have this reservation will find the book well suited to their needs, and I would have no hesitations in using it for an advanced class focused on Neo-Latin or in giving it to an interested student for self study.