Pope Clement XIII
1693 CE–1769 CE · Modern · Venice
Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, a Venetian noble, reigned as Catholic monarchies turned against the Society of Jesus. Portugal, France, Spain, and Naples expelled the Jesuits one by one, pressing the pope to suppress the order entirely. Clement XIII staunchly defended them, issuing the 1765 bull Apostolicum pascendi in their praise and resisting royal demands to the end. He also condemned anti-papal and Enlightenment writings and clashed with reforming states over ecclesiastical jurisdiction. He died suddenly in 1769 as the Bourbon courts massed for a final assault on the Jesuits—a confrontation his successor would be elected largely to resolve.
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Venice is a city built on islands in a lagoon of the Adriatic in northeastern Italy, capital of the Veneto region. For about eleven centuries, until Napoleon ended it in 1797, it was an independent republic ruled by doges and grew rich as a maritime trading power; it joined the Kingdom of Italy in 1866. St Mark's Basilica stands at its centre, and since 1451 the city has been the seat of a patriarchate whose holders included three future popes, Pius X, John XXIII and John Paul I. In 1516 the republic confined its Jews to the Ghetto, and the city became a leading centre of Hebrew printing, where Daniel Bomberg issued the first complete printed Babylonian Talmud (1519-1523).
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