Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini elected Pope Pius II
08/19/1458 AD elected
Calixtus III died on 6 August 1458. On 10 August, the cardinals entered into a papal conclave.
In a passage of his own history of his times, long excerpted from that work and printed clandestinely in the Conclavi de' Pontifici Romani, Aeneas explained how he frustrated the ambitions of d'Estouteville. It seemed appropriate to Aeneas that the election should fall upon himself: although the sacred college included a few men of higher moral standards, he believed that his abilities made him most worthy of the papal tiara. It was the peculiar faculty of Aeneas to accommodate himself perfectly to whatever position he might be called upon to occupy, and he now believed that he could exploit this adaptability to assume the papacy with appropriate success and personal character.
After a minimum of intrigue among the cardinals, he was able to secure enough votes for his candidacy after the second ballot to be elected unanimously.
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Pope Pius II (Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, Aeneas) Pope of Catholic Church ...
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