BIBLIOGRAPHY
MODERN EDITIONÂ OF THE COMMENTARIES
I Tatti Renaissance Library, Volumes 12, 29, 83, edited and translated by Margaret Meserve.
CRITICAL STUDIES
Emily O'Brien, The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy (University of Toronto Press, 2015)
SELECT STUDIES
Nancy Bisaha, "'Discourses of Power and Desire': The Letters of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini," In Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society, and Politics in Renaissance Italy. Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, eds. David S. Peterson and Daniel E. Bornstein. Essays and Studies 15 (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008): 121-134.
Richard Hilary, "The Nepotism of Pope Pius II, 1458-1464," The Catholic Historical Review 64:1 (1978): 33-35.
Rosamond Mitchell, The Laurels and the Tiara: Pope Pius II, 1458-1464. (Harvill Press, 1962).
Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt, editors. Pius II - 'El Piu Expeditivo Pontifice': Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 117 (Brill, 2003).