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Renaissance Papacy

  • Pope Julius IIGiuliano della Rovere was born on the 5th of December 1443 in Albisola, a small coastal town near Savona in the Republic of Genoa, into a noble but…
  • Pope Alexander VIRoderic de Borja entered the world around 1431 in Xàtiva, a town nestled within the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.
  • Pope Clement VIIGiulio de' Medici was born on the 26th of May 1478, exactly one month after his father, Giuliano de Medici, was murdered in the Florence Cathedral during the…
  • Pope Clement VIIGiulio de' Medici entered the world on the 26th of May 1478 in Florence. His birth followed a tragedy that occurred exactly one month earlier.
  • Renaissance PapacyIn 1420, the papacy returned to Rome under Pope Martin V. This event marked a shift after decades of absence during the Western Schism.