ID: 901000927 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000927	Record Type: Literature

	De duobus amantibus historia (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century)

Note: Written in Latin by Eneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464) before he became pope, while he was working in Vienna at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor. One of the earliest examples of an epistolary novel, full of erotic imagery. The first printed edition was published by Ulrich Zel in Cologne between 1467 and 1470.

Display Date: 15th century

Names:

	De duobus amantibus historia (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century) (preferred,Latin-P,D)
	De duobus amantibus historia (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century) (English-P,D)
	Story of Two Lovers (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century) (English,U)
	Tale of Two Lovers (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.)> (P)
		............De duobus amantibus historia (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century) (P)

Related Iconography:

	actor is .... Euryalus
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Euryalus (literary character, Historia de duobus amantibus, 1444)) [901000810]

Other Relationships:

	author is .... Pius II, Pope (Italian pope, 1405-1464)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... epistolary novel
	.....(novels, genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... erotica
	.....(genres in the visual arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	De duobus amantibus historia (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	Story of Two Lovers (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	Tale of Two Lovers (novel, Piccolomini, 15th century)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)