Pope Lucius III
?–1185 CE · Pisa
Born Ubaldo Allucingoli at Lucca, Lucius III was an experienced cardinal when elected in 1181. Persistent hostility from the Roman commune kept him largely absent from the city, residing chiefly at Velletri and Verona. At Verona in 1184 he met Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and issued the decretal Ad abolendam, a landmark in the church's developing response to heresy that organized episcopal inquiry against the Cathars, Waldensians, and others, foreshadowing the later inquisition. He and Frederick also discussed a new crusade and disputed control of contested lands. Lucius died at Verona in 1185 with several major questions, including imperial relations, still unsettled.
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Pisa, on the Arno near the Ligurian Sea in Tuscany, central Italy, was one of the Italian maritime republics; its eleventh- and twelfth-century wealth built the cathedral complex of the Piazza del Duomo with its leaning bell tower. The city became an archbishopric in 1092. Pope Eugene III was a Pisan, and Pope Gregory VIII died there in 1187 while trying to reconcile Pisa and Genoa for a crusade. Florence took control of the city in the early fifteenth century. Pisa's university, among the oldest in Italy, educated Galileo Galilei, who was born in the city in 1564 and later held its chair of mathematics. In the early eighteenth century the Livorno-born kabbalist Joseph Ergas founded a yeshiva in Pisa.
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