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Before he became Pope Pius II, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini authored a controversial romance that would later embarrass him. In 1444 he wrote The Tale of Two Lovers, a series of fictional letters describing a forbidden affair between Lucretia, a married woman, and Euryalus, a man of lower status in Siena, Italy. The scandalous novel became an international bestseller and was widely printed after its first Cologne edition in 1467, eventually translated from Latin into many languages. Years later, a

Pope Pius II wrote the erotic novel The Tale of Two Lovers, which became a bestseller, despite his later strict turn to religion. Discover his contradictory life! #history #Pope #lovers #erotic #Catholic #church #romance Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/popes-erotic-novel-0016827 | Ancient Origins