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Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II’s Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.

The History of Science and the New Humanism. By George Sarton. Pp. 178. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1931.) 2 dollars.