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  • Thumbnail for Pope Leo X
    Pope Leo X (Italian: Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the...
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    The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; a short, rounded head;...
    147 KB (16,037 words) - 22:42, 2 January 2025
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    [failed verification] Leo Africanus left Rome and spent the next three or four years traveling in Italy. The death of his patron Leo X in 1521, and suspicions...
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    as a statesman. He had served with distinction as chief advisor to Pope Leo X (1513–1521, his cousin), Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523), and commendably as...
    78 KB (8,494 words) - 10:07, 28 December 2024
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    de' Medici was elected as pope. He chose to be called Leo XI in honor of his uncle Pope Leo X. He was crowned on 10 April 1605 by the protodeacon, Cardinal...
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  • Thumbnail for Portrait of Leo X (Raphael)
    Leo X with two Cardinals, also known as Portrait of Pope Leo X with the cardinals Giulio de' Medici e Luigi de' Rossi (Italian: Ritratto di Leone X con...
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    In 1514, he served as ambassador from King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X, leading a luxurious embassy presenting in Rome the new conquests of Portugal...
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  • Thumbnail for Lorenzo de' Medici
    1474 Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (1475–1521), ascended to the papacy as Leo X in 1513 Luisa de' Medici (1477–1488), also called Luigia, was betrothed...
    36 KB (3,890 words) - 16:40, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Medici
    popes of the Catholic Church—Pope Leo X (1513–1521), Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), Pope Pius IV (1559–1565) and Pope Leo XI (1605)—and two queens of France—Catherine...
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    Inquisitor of the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. Pope Leo X made him a cardinal in 1517 and after Leo's death he was elected pope in 1522 as a compromise...
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  • Thumbnail for Michelangelo and the Medici
    the family continued for decades including the Medici papacies of Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII. Despite pauses and turbulence in the relationship...
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    In March 1513, Lorenzo de' Medici's son Giovanni assumed the papacy (as Leo X); Leonardo went to Rome that September, where he was received by the pope's...
    137 KB (14,837 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
    republican system of government and thus, in 1516, convinced his uncle, Pope Leo X to make him Duke of Urbino at the age of 24. So began a conflict with the...
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    indulgences in Ninety-five Theses, which he authored in 1517. In 1520, Pope Leo X demanded that Luther renounce all of his writings, and when Luther refused...
    147 KB (18,321 words) - 12:35, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Wolsey
    church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy. The highest political...
    60 KB (7,513 words) - 10:57, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
    humanist education by Pierio Valeriano Bolzani, under the supervision of Pope Leo X and Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici. During those years, a number of unexpected...
    23 KB (2,321 words) - 16:00, 28 December 2024
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    alongside his younger brother Giovanni, who would go on to become Pope Leo X, and his cousin Giulio, who would later become Pope Clement VII.: 7  Piero...
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  • (847–855) Pope Leo V (903) Pope Leo VI (928) Pope Leo VII (936–939) Pope Leo VIII (964–965) Pope Leo IX (1049–1054) Pope Leo X (1513–1521) Pope Leo XI (1605)...
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    Borgo"). After the death of Julius in 1513, with two rooms frescoed, Pope Leo X continued the program. Following Raphael's death in 1520, his assistants...
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  • historical—political and cultural—figures of his time, including Popes Leo X, Adrian VI, and Clement VII; Ottoman emperors Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent;...
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