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| | Pope Nicholas V Summary |
 | | Pope Nicholas V (November 15, 1397 – March 24, 1455), born Tomaso Parentucelli, was Pope from March 6, 1447, to his death. |
 | | The next year, 1450, Nicholas V held a jubilee at Rome; and the offerings of the numerous pilgrims who thronged to Rome gave him the means of furthering the cause of culture in Italy, which he had so much at heart. |
 | | Nicholas V instead employed Lorenzo Valla as a notary and kept hundreds (confirm; this seems high) of copyists and scholars, with the special aim of wholesale translations of Greek works, pagan as well as Christian, into Latin, giving as much as ten thousand gulden for a metrical translation of Homer. |
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