Pope Paul V
1552 CE–1621 CE · Rome
Born Camillo Borghese in Rome, Paul V was a canon lawyer who became a vigorous defender of papal authority. His pontificate opened with a fierce jurisdictional clash with the Republic of Venice, the Interdict of 1606, in which he placed the city under interdict over Church rights, a dispute eventually mediated. He completed the facade and nave of St. Peter's Basilica, his name inscribed across its front, and enriched Rome with the Acqua Paola aqueduct and Borghese patronage. During his reign the Roman Inquisition issued its 1616 admonition to Galileo regarding Copernican astronomy, a moment central to later debates over science and the Church.
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Rome in this era
In the 16th-17th centuries Rome was the centre of the Catholic Reformation. Imperial troops sacked the city in 1527, St Peter's Basilica was rebuilt (1506-1626), the Roman Inquisition was established in 1542, and Baroque popes reshaped its churches and squares.
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Ignatius of Loyola, Pope Pius IV, Pope Marcellus II, Pope Gregory XIII, Pope St. Pius V, Pope Innocent IX
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