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... Pope Alexander VI . Savonarola inveighs against Rome Papal Brief against him Preaches his Lent Sermons on Amos ' Asserts a Mission above that of the Pope Procession on Palm Sunday Francesco Valori and the Piagnoni Works of Art burnt in ...
... Pope Alexander VI . Savonarola inveighs against Rome Papal Brief against him Preaches his Lent Sermons on Amos ' Asserts a Mission above that of the Pope Procession on Palm Sunday Francesco Valori and the Piagnoni Works of Art burnt in ...
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... Pope Julius II . 158 . Pontificate of Leo X. 159 The Revival of Learning . 160 Influence of Antiquity upon the Arts • 161 Character of Leo • · 162 · Elegancies and Refinements of the Court of Rome Effect on the Reformation • 163 165 ...
... Pope Julius II . 158 . Pontificate of Leo X. 159 The Revival of Learning . 160 Influence of Antiquity upon the Arts • 161 Character of Leo • · 162 · Elegancies and Refinements of the Court of Rome Effect on the Reformation • 163 165 ...
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... Popes as Temporal Princes 198 Pontificate of Sixtus V 199 Progress and Encroachments of Protestantism • · 200 • 203 ... Pope Head of the Catholic Confederacy Schemes of Sixtus V Lofty Pretensions of the Church Repudiated by the Venetian ...
... Popes as Temporal Princes 198 Pontificate of Sixtus V 199 Progress and Encroachments of Protestantism • · 200 • 203 ... Pope Head of the Catholic Confederacy Schemes of Sixtus V Lofty Pretensions of the Church Repudiated by the Venetian ...
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... Pope's nephew was the prime mover , the leading agent an archbishop , its means foul murder . The place of that murder was the great church of Florence , the time of that murder the celebra- tion of the Mass , the signal for that murder ...
... Pope's nephew was the prime mover , the leading agent an archbishop , its means foul murder . The place of that murder was the great church of Florence , the time of that murder the celebra- tion of the Mass , the signal for that murder ...
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... Pope's complicity is beyond all doubt . A confession of one of the ruffians was published , from which it appeared that the Pope had repeatedly declared against bloodshed , as unbecoming his office ; but after this special protest , he ...
... Pope's complicity is beyond all doubt . A confession of one of the ruffians was published , from which it appeared that the Pope had repeatedly declared against bloodshed , as unbecoming his office ; but after this special protest , he ...
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Page 324 - ... a conspirator against its rights and privileges"; — a religion which they consider the champion and instrument of darkness, and a pollution calling down upon the land the anger of heaven; — a religion which they associate with intrigue and conspiracy, which they speak about in whispers, which they detect by anticipation in whatever goes wrong, and to which they impute whatever is unaccountable; — a religion the very name of which they cast out as evil, and use simply as a bad epithet, and...
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