Editing Pope Pius II (section)

===Pienza===
Pope Pius II inaugurated an unusual urban project, perhaps the first city-planning exercise in modern Europe.<ref>The bull "Pro Excellenti", 13 August 1462:  {{cite book|editor=Luigi Tomassetti |title=Bullarum, diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum romanorum pontificum taurinensis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DklEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA166|volume=5 (Tomus V)|year=1860|publisher=Seb. Franco et Henrico Dalmazzo editoribus|location=Turin|language=Latin|pages=166–169}}</ref> He refurbished his hometown of Corsignano ([[province of Siena]]) and renamed it [[Pienza]], after himself.<ref>Charles Randall Mack, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AumYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 ''Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance City,''] (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2019), esp. pp. 17-32. Eugène Müntz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9-5IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA300 ''Les artes a la cour des Papes pendant le XV<sup>e</sup> e le XVI<sup>e</sup> siècle''] (Paris: Thorin 1878), pp. 300-305.</ref> A cathedral and palaces were built in the best style of the day to decorate the city.<ref>Giovanni Battista Mannucci, ''Pienza: i suoi monumenti e la sua diocesi,'' {{in lang|it}}, (Montepulciano: Tip. Madonna della Querce, 1915), pp. 11-17. [[John Julius Norwich]], ''Absolute Monarchs'', p. 255-256. Quote: "In just five years between 14[5]9 and 1464 he transformed his birthplace, the little village of Corsignano, redesigning it on classical lines according to all the latest theories of urban planning, giving it a cathedral and a magnificent palazzo for the use of his family, and renaming it after himself: Pienza."</ref> They survive to this day. He also issued a [[papal bull]], ''[[Cum almam nostram urbem]]'', on 28 April 1462, prohibiting damage to ancient ruins in Rome or [[Campagna]].<ref>Pastor III, p. 304. Müntz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9-5IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA352 ''Les artes a la cour des Papes pendant le XV<sup>e</sup> e le XVI<sup>e</sup> siècle''], pp. 352-353.</ref>