Pope Lucius II
?–1145 CE · Italy (Soncino/Bologna)
Born Gerardo Caccianemici dal Orso at Bologna, Lucius II served as papal librarian and chancellor before his brief, troubled pontificate. His reign was dominated by the Roman commune, which under figures inspired by Arnold of Brescia sought to restore a republican Senate and strip the pope of temporal power over the city. Lucius resisted these demands and reportedly led or sanctioned an attempt to retake the Capitol by force. He died in February 1145 after little more than a year in office, leaving the conflict between papacy and commune unresolved for his successors to confront.
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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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