Editing Pope Pius II (section)

==Early life==
Aeneas was born in [[Corsignano]] in [[Siena|Sienese]] territory of a noble but impoverished family. His father Silvio was a soldier and member of the [[Piccolomini|House of Piccolomini]], and his mother was Vittoria Forteguerri, who had eighteen children including several twins, though no more than ten were alive at one time. The plague (''iniqua lues'') finally left him with only two sisters, Laudamia and Catherina.<ref>Pius II, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OcgHMjqRsCEC&pg=PA1 ''Commentarii rerum memorabilium, quae temporibus suis contigerunt,''] {{in lang|la}}, (Aubry, 1614), p. 1. Gragg, p. 11. Ivan Cloutas and Vito Castiglione Minischetti, ed., ''Mémoires d'un Pape de la Renaissance. Les Commentarii de Pie II'', Tallandier, 2001, p. 43.</ref> He worked with his father in the fields for some years.

In 1423, at the age of 18, he left to study at the university of [[university of Siena|Siena]], where he first followed the humanities curriculum, and then that of civil law.<ref>"audire grammaticos coepit, deinde poetas, & oratores auide sectatus, postremo ad ius ciuile se contulit: cuius professores cum aliquot annos audiuisset." Gragg, p. 12.</ref> At Siena he studied under the Augustinian Andreas of Milan, the noted historian.<ref>Piccolomini, ''Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomineus, qui postea Pius II. P. M., [https://books.google.com/books?id=PdnjdeL6CQgC&pg=PA24 De viris illustribus]'', p. 24.</ref> His preceptor and professor of civil law was Antonio de Rosellis.<ref>Wolkan, ''Privatbriefe'', p. 1, note b.</ref> He also studied law under Mariano Sozzini.<ref>Creighton, p. 235.</ref> He then attended the [[university of Florence]] where he studied under [[Francesco Filelfo]], and where he became friends with [[Poggio Bracciolini]], [[Leonardo Bruni]], and [[Guarino da Verona]].<ref>Herbert Jaumann, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PCNN%20blc77kC&pg=PA511 ''Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit,''] {{in lang|de}}, Volume 1 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), p. 511.</ref> He settled in Siena as a teacher.