Laetus was born at Teggiano, near Salerno, the illegitimate scion of the princely house of Sanseverino, the German historian Ludwig von Pastor reported.
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Ludwig von Pastor has shown that Pope Julius II (1503-1513) was not illiterate, although he is poetically referred to as such by Desiderius Erasmus.