Tentativi di crociata nelle strategie della Curia pontificia agli inizi del Cinquecento: l'Orazione di Alessandro Geraldini a Basilio III di Russia

Within the framework of the papacy strategies to counter the Turkish expansion in Eastern Europe at the time of the pontificate of Leo X in the early sixteenth century are part of diplomatic initiatives by Alessandro Geraldini, ambassador of the pope at various European courts. In papal policy of those years there was an attempt to retrieve the division between the Church of Rome and the Church of the East and to recover the cause the grand duchy of Russia European. The Leone X efforts for the realization of the crusade found a deep echo among the humanists and scholars of his court.It's in this context that examines the still unpublished work of Alexander Geraldini Oratio Alexandri Geraldini bishops Russie habita coram rege.