Pope Innocent IX
1519 CE–1591 CE · Italy (Soncino/Bologna)
Born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti in Bologna, Innocent IX reigned barely two months in the winter of 1591. A trained canon lawyer, he had served as Patriarch of Jerusalem in title, nuncio to Venice, and a senior curial administrator, gaining a reputation for diligence. As pope he reorganized the administration of the Papal States, continued Spanish-aligned support for the Catholic side in France, and undertook practical works such as efforts to control flooding of the Tiber. Already elderly and frail at his election, he fell ill after a devotional pilgrimage on foot through Rome's churches and died at the end of December.
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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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