Pope Pius II’s Letter to Sultan Mehmed II: a Reexamination

¹A draft of this article was presented at the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Oslo, Norway. My thanks to all those who attended and shared their comments with me, particularly Norman Housley. Portions of this article first appeared in my Ph.D. dissertation, “Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks” (Cornell University, 1997).

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¹ A draft of this article was presented at the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Oslo, Norway. My thanks to all those who attended and shared their comments with me, particularly Norman Housley. Portions of this article first appeared in my Ph.D. dissertation, “Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks” (Cornell University, 1997).