Pope Eugene IV
1383 CE–1447 CE · Venice
Born Gabriele Condulmer in Venice, Eugene IV reigned through a fierce struggle between papal and conciliar power. His attempt to dissolve the Council of Basel provoked a prolonged conflict; the council declared itself superior to the pope and eventually elected an antipope, while Eugene was for years driven from a rebellious Rome to Florence. There he convened the rival Council of Ferrara-Florence, which in 1439 achieved a historic—though ultimately fragile—decree of union between the Latin and Greek Churches, his pontificate's greatest achievement. A patron of Renaissance artists and humanists, he asserted papal supremacy and left the conciliar movement decisively weakened.
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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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