# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini on 18 October 1405, he made his name as an author, diplomat, and orator, serving as private secretary to Antipope Felix V, then Emperor Frederick III, then Pope Eugenius IV. He attended the Council of Basel but abandoned it in 1443 to follow Frederick, whom he brought back into Roman obedience. He rose steadily: Bishop of Trieste in 1447, Bishop of Siena in 1450, cardinal in 1456. On 19 August 1458 he became Pope Pius II, ruling the Catholic Church and the Papal States until his death on 14 August 1464. His longest work, the Commentaries, appeared in 1584—120 years after he died—and remains the first autobiography a pope ever published.