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    The Renaissance Papacy was a period of papal history between the Western Schism and the Reformation. From the election of Pope Martin V of the Council...
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    between two and, for a time, three competing papal claimants. The Renaissance Papacy is known for its artistic and architectural patronage, frequent involvement...
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    The Avignon Papacy (French: Papauté d'Avignon) was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon (at the time within...
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    Pope Sixtus IV (category Renaissance Papacy)
    arts, he brought together the group of artists who ushered the early Renaissance into Rome with the first masterpieces of the city's new artistic age...
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    Pope Leo X (category Renaissance Papacy)
    not to have been in priestly orders at the time of his election to the papacy. Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici was born on 11 December 1475 in Florence...
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    Pope Clement VII (category Renaissance Papacy)
    world politics. Elected in 1524 at the end of the Italian Renaissance, Clement came to the papacy with a high reputation as a statesman. He had served with...
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    Pope Alexander VI (category Renaissance Papacy)
    (2006). The Renaissance Popes. Robinson. ISBN 978-1-84529-343-7. Norwich, John Julius (2011). Absolute Monarchs: a History of the Papacy. Random House...
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    Pope Martin V (category Renaissance Papacy)
    asked of him by the king. ... [P]olitical weakness compelled the Renaissance Papacy to adopt an acquiescent and unchallenging position when approached...
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    Pope Julius II (category Renaissance Papacy)
    States increased their power and centralization, and the office of the papacy continued to be crucial, diplomatically and politically, during the entirety...
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    centers were Venice, Genoa, Milan, Rome during the Renaissance Papacy, and Naples. From Italy, the Renaissance spread throughout Europe and also to American...
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