Pope Clement VII
1478 CE–1534 CE · Florence
Born Giulio de' Medici, illegitimate cousin of Leo X, he was legitimized and rose to cardinal and trusted papal adviser. As Clement VII he faced overwhelming crises with cautious, often vacillating diplomacy. His shifting alliances between Emperor Charles V and France contributed to the catastrophic 1527 Sack of Rome by imperial troops, during which he was besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo. He refused Henry VIII's request to annul his marriage, precipitating England's break with Rome, and was slow to counter the spreading Reformation. A notable patron—commissioning Michelangelo's Last Judgment—he is generally judged a cultivated but politically unfortunate pope.
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About Florence
Florence is the capital of Tuscany in central Italy. A leading city of the Italian Renaissance under the Medici, it hosted the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439), which briefly reunited the Latin and Greek churches, was the city of the Dominican friar Savonarola, and produced several Medici popes. Galileo became court mathematician and philosopher to the Medici grand duke in 1610, spent his last years under house arrest at Arcetri on the city's edge, and is buried in Santa Croce. Its Jewish community was confined to a ghetto created by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1571 until emancipation in 1848, and its Great Synagogue was completed in 1882.
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Girolamo Savonarola, Pope Adrian VI, Pope Paul III, Pope Leo X, Pope Paul IV, Pope Urban VII
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