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Pius II (1405-1464, pave fra 1458), Commentarii rerum memorabilium
Dacia quoque, Suetia ac Norvegia remotiores provinciae sunt quam milities possint mittere, nec solis contentae piscibus pecuniam ministrare possunt.
Now we must say where matters stand, so that everyone may know what our prospects look like, which kings and countries are ready to protect the faith and which remain indifferent. If the Hungarians receive support they will make ever effort to attack the Turks with all they might. The Germans promise an army of 42,000 men, and 6,000 are pledged from Burgundy. In Italy (with the exception of the Venetians and the Genoese), the clergy will contribute a tenth and the laity a thirtieth of their income, and the Jews a twentieth of their total worth. With these funds we canmaintain a fleet. King Juan of Aragon promises to do the same. The Ragusans will furnish two galleys, the Rhodians four. The princes and their ambassadors have solemnly sworn to provide this much for certain. The Venetians, though they have made no public promises, surely cannot fail us once they see the crusade actually under way; the possibilty that they might be judged lesser men than their forebears is something they will never allow. We can say the same of France, Castile, and Portugal. England, now racked with civil war, holds out no hope, nor does Scotland, lying as it does in the farthest reaches of the ocean. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are also too remote to send soldiers and they have no money to contribute, for they live on fis'h alone.' The Poles, whose moldavian territories border on the Turks, will not dare to let down their own cause. We can hire the Bohemians; they will not fight beyond their borders unless someone else pays. This is how matters lie in Christendom.
Pius II, Commentaries, vol. 1-2, edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta, The I Tatti Renaissance Library (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004-2007), (book III, ch. 47), vol 2, s. 196 (ed.) -197 (transl.)
Bibliografi:
Martels, Zweder von: "Pope Pius II and the idea of the Appropriate Thematisation of the Self", in Princes and Princely Culture, 1450-1650, red. M. Gosman, A. MacDonald, A. Vanderjagt (Leiden: Brill, 2003), vol. 2, s. 1-21
