Pope Leo XI
1535 CE–1605 CE · Florence
Born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici in Florence, Leo XI belonged to the powerful Medici family and reigned less than a month in April 1605, earning the epithet Papa Lampo, the lightning pope. Before his election he had been a disciple of Philip Neri, Archbishop of Florence, and an influential papal legate to France who helped advance the reconciliation of Henry IV with Rome. His brief election, backed by French interests, reflected the era's contest between French and Spanish influence over the papacy. He fell ill after his coronation ceremonies and died on 27 April, leaving no time to shape policy.
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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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