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The
Council of Mantua of 1459 was convoked by
Pope Pius II, who had been elected to the Papacy in the previous year and was engaged in planning war against the Turks, who had taken
Constantinople in 1453. His call went out to the rulers of Europe, in an agonized plea to turn from internecine warfare to face Christendom's common enemy.
Process of the Council of 1459
Julius was in Mantua by
22 January; his long progress to the place of assembly resembled a triumphal procession. He opened the council on the first of June and waited in
Mantua as the guest of
Ludovico Gonzaga until September for the various representatives to assemble. On
26 September he called for a new crusade against the Ottomans. The refugee Cardinal
Bessarion and
Nicholas of Cusa were in attendance. The
Duke of Burgundy was represented at the Council by the duke of Clèves, who brought in his train the young Burgundian cleric
Ferry de Clugny. The painter
Mantegna had been invited to Mantua by Ludovico in 1457; now, still remaining in Padua, he painted the
Agony in the Garden that's in the
National Gallery, London, for its
Podestà; in Mantegna's picture, the disciples sleep in Gethsemane, while Jerusalem is envisaged as
Constantinople, with the rising
crescent moon signifying its capture by the Turk..
Criticism and effects
Not all the leaders of the Church were in favour of a Crusade. The Venetian Cardinal
Ludoviso Trevisano, patriarch of Aquileia, met Pius in Siena,
16 March, and followed the pope to Mantua, although he opposed the aims of the Council.
By the time the Council was disbanded in January 1460, an ineffectual call for a new
crusade against the
Infidel had been decided upon, and proclaimed by Julius on
14 January. The paper crusade was to last for three years; it was to prove ineffectual.
Historians of the
Tarot like Heinrich Brockhaus have asserted that the so-called
Tarocchi di Mantegna were devised and made during the sitting of this council.
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