Oration ”Nisi satis exploratum” of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (13 October 1445, Vienna). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 5th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II; 8)
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Enea Silvio Piccolomini Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini Æneas Silvius Piccolomini Kaiser Friedrich III Habsburg Emperor Frederick III Habsburg Pope Pius II Vienna University Wien Universität University of Vienna Renaissance oratory FRenaissance orations Liberal arts Praise of liberal arts 1445 History of universities History as an academic subject Pleasure of research Interrelationship of research and teaching Academic curricula Inaugural lectures Renaissance rhetorics 15th century Papa Pio IISujets proches
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Michael Von Cotta-Schönberg, « Oration ”Nisi satis exploratum” of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (13 October 1445, Vienna). Edited and translated by Michael von Cotta-Schönberg. 5th version. (Orations of Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Pope Pius II; 8) », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.3i8mpq
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In autumn 1445, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, secretary in the imperial chancery of Emperor Friedrich III and poet laureate, was invited to give two academic lectures at the University of Vienna. The first one, the “Nisi satis exploratum”, was most probably delivered at the beginning of the winter semester at the Faculty of Law, in October. It is an oration in praise of all the arts and sciences taught at a contemporary university, belonging to a well-established rhetorical genre developed at Italian universities. It has two main sections: in the first Piccolomini outlines the benefits (utilitas) of each art and science, in the second he speaks of their enjoyments and distinction (voluptates et ornamentum). Noteworthy in the oration are Piccolomini’s treatment of history as a distinct art, his description of the pleasure of scholarship, and his insistence on the interrelationship between research and teaching.