Results for all Popes 31 - 40 of 54. |
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Giambattista Pamphili was born in Rome in 1574, the son of a well-established family from Umbria. His uncle, Cardinal Girolamo Pamphili was his mentor and after graduating in law in 1597 from the Roman College, he began a car... read more » |
1644-1655 |
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Maffeo Barberini was born at Florence, in 1568, the son of wealthy merchants. He studied under the Jesuits there, was a student in Rome and graduated from Pisa in 1589 with a doctorate in law. He was twenty-one years of age. ... read more » |
1623-1644 |
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Ippolito Aldobrandini was born at Fano in 1536, the son of a distinguished Florentine barrister. Through the generosity of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III, he studied law at Padua, Perugia and Bologna. B... read more » |
1592-1605 |
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Giovanni Fachinetti was born in Bologna in 1519 to a family of modest means. He received a doctorate in law there in 1544. He was twenty-five years of age. Fachinetti then joined the staff of Cardinal Farnese, the future Pope... read more » |
1591 |
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Niccolo Sfondrati was born near Milan on February 11, 1535, the son of a Milanese senator whose mother died in childbirth. Upon her death, the senator became a cardinal and was himself considered a possible choice for the pap... read more » |
1590-1591 |
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Felice Peretti, the son of a farm worker, was born in 1520 in Grottammare, a town on Italy’s Adriatic coast across the sea from Dalmatia in what is now Croatia/Montenegro. They had emigrated to avoid the persecution of ... read more » |
1585-1590 |
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Ugo Boncompagni was born in Bologna in 1502, the fourth son of a merchant and an aristocratic mother. He was educated at the University of Bologna, earning a doctorate in law. For the next eight years he remained there as a l... read more » |
1572-1585 |
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Antony Ghislieri was born to humble parents in 1504. As a child he had been a shepherd. He entered the Dominican order at age fourteen and his conduct there was exemplary, particularly his devotion to an ascetic life style. T... read more » |
1566-1572 |
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Gian Angelo Medici, born in 1499 in Milan to an impoverished family, received his initial education through charitable means. He studied medicine and received a doctoral degree in law at Bologna in 1525. Within two years, Med... read more » |
1559-1565 |
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Giovanni del Monte was born in Rome in 1487, the son of a brilliant lawyer. He studied law at Perugia and Siena and became the chamberlain to Pope Julius II (1503 – 1513). In 1511, at the age of twenty-four, he received... read more » |
1550-1555 |
