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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.

Humanists reject the idea or belief in a supernatural being such as God. This means that Humanists class themselves as agnostic or atheist. Humanists have no belief in an afterlife, and so they ...