
	Where results make sense

Topic: Acciajuoli

	Acciajuoli (Catholic Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki
		He resisted all endeavours that were made to bring him over to the antipope, Clement VII, and defended by word and deed the regularity of the election of Urban VI.
		After this Pope's death, half the votes in the succeeding conclave were for Acciajuoli; but to end the schism, he directed the election towards Boniface IX.
		The new Pope made him Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, and sent him to Germany, Slavonia, and Bulgaria to settle difficulties there.
	bible.tmtm.com /wiki/Acciajuoli_(Catholic_Encyclopedia) (264 words)

	Walks in Florence: Churches, Streets and Palaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Acciajuoli family are supposed to have been workers in steel or iron at Brescia, who, about the year 1160, emigrated to Florence to escape the savage cruelty of Frederick Barbarossa.
		Acciajuoli endowed there a college for fifty youths, who were to be instructed in the liberal arts, but this part of the monastery was never finished.
		A bishop of the Acciajuoli family, who inhabited the palace on the Lung' Arno, which is now the Hotel dell' Arno, employed Pocetti to paint frescos, still in preservation in one of the rooms.
	www.florin.ms /hwalks33.html (3567 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Acciajuoli
		He resisted all endeavours that were made to bring him over to the antipope, Clement VII, and defended by word and deed the regularity of the
		Pope's death, half the votes in the succeeding conclave were for Acciajuoli; but to end the schism, he directed the
		Pope made him Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, and sent him to Germany, Slavonia, and Bulgaria to settle difficulties there.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01096b.htm (240 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 588 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The love and reverence of his most eminent pupils, Lorenzo de' Medici, Poliziano, and Acciajuoli, is an honourable testimony to his character.
		Yet he has been severely censured ; and is charged with gluttony, to which his corpulence is ascribed, and with.drunkenness, as well as with conceit and jealousy.
		This work comprehends the substance of his expository lectures on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, taken down from his lips, and published by Donatus Acciaiolus or Donato Acciajuoli, who has already been mentioned as a pupil of Argyropulus, and who dedicated this work to Cosmo de' Medici.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1696.html (942 words)

	Dorothy Dunnett - NICCOLO RISING
		And as the chameleon artificer of all this, Nicholas incurs the ambiguous interest of the Bruges patrician Anselm Adorne and the Greco-Florentine prince Nicholai Giorgio de' Acciajuoli, both of whom steer him toward a role in the rivalry between Venice, in whose interest Acciajuoli labors, and Genoa, original home of the Adorne family.
		In this first novel the contested product is alum, the mineral that binds dyes to cloth, blood to the body, conspirators to a conspiracy--in this case, to keep secret the news of a newly found deposit of the mineral in the Papal States while Venice and her allies monopolize the current supply.
		Acciajuoli and Adorne are father-mentor figures Nicholas can respect, resist, or join on roughly equal intellectual terms--whereas the powerful elder males of his blood, his mother's uncle, Jaak de Fleury, and his father's father, Jordan de Ribérac, steadily rip open wounds first inflicted in childhood.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/dunnett/niccolo/rising.html (621 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)