Pope Benedict XIV
1675 CE–1758 CE · Modern · Italy (Soncino/Bologna)
Prospero Lambertini of Bologna is widely regarded as one of the most learned and humane popes of the era. A canon-law scholar whose treatise on beatification and canonization remains a reference, he combined wit, moderation, and openness to the sciences—corresponding with Enlightenment figures including Voltaire and reforming the censorship of books. He negotiated pragmatic concordats with Catholic monarchies, founded academies, and promoted scholarship and the arts. In the Chinese and Malabar Rites controversies he upheld earlier prohibitions, ending the disputes firmly. Esteemed even by Protestants and skeptics for his reasonableness and tolerance, Benedict XIV embodied a Catholicism engaged, rather than at war, with its age.
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About Italy (Soncino/Bologna)
Italy, in southern Europe, is treated here as the country as a whole. Rome is the seat of the papacy, and the popes ruled the Papal States in central Italy until Italian forces took Rome in 1870, completing the unification begun when the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861; the country became a republic in 1946. Italy also has one of the oldest Jewish diasporas, attested in Rome by the 2nd century BCE. In the Renaissance it was a centre of Hebrew printing, where the Soncino press issued the first complete printed Hebrew Bible in 1488, and of Jewish biblical commentary: Isaac Abarbanel spent his last years in Italy, and Ovadiah Sforno taught in Rome and Bologna.
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Pope Alexander VIII, Miguel de Molinos, Pope Benedict XIII, Pope Clement XI, Pope Clement XII, Pope Innocent XIII, Pope Clement XIII
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