The Tale of Two Lovers

The Tale of Two Lovers is an epistolary novella written in 1444 by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who later became Pope Pius II, and first printed between 1467 and 1470. Set in Siena, it tells of a love affair between Lucretia, a married woman, and Euryalus, an attendant to the Duke of Austria, whose initially unspoken feelings grow into an extended exchange of letters. Euryalus invokes the classical maxim that love conquers all before writing his first letter to Lucretia, and much of the novella is composed of the couple's correspondence. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/