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	Pope Alexander VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander VI, (Roderic Borja; often referred to in English by the Italian form Rodrigo Borgia; January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503) Pope from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the secular Popes of the Renaissance, whose surname became a byword for low standards in the papacy of that era.
		Alexander VI's elevation did not at the time excite much alarm, and at first his reign was marked by a strict administration of justice and an orderly method of government in satisfactory contrast with the anarchy of the previous pontificate, as well as by great outward splendour.
		Alexander VI hoped that Louis XII's help would be more profitable to his house than that of Charles VIII had been and, in spite of the remonstrances of Spain and of the Sforza, he allied himself with France in January 1499 and was joined by Venice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI (4331 words)

	Alexander Pope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The death of Alexander Pope from Museus, a threnody by William Mason.
		Alexander Pope (22 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.
		Born in London to a Roman Catholic family in 1688, Pope was educated mostly at home, in part due to laws in force at the time upholding the status of the established Church of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Pope (798 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander VI
		The wedding was celebrated in the Vatican in the presence of the Pope, ten cardinals, and the chief nobles of Rome with their ladies, the revelries of the occasion, even when exaggerations and rumours are dismissed, remain a blot upon the character of Alexander.
		Alexander cannot be held responsible for the second "barbarian" invasion of Italy, but he was quick to take advantage of it for the consolidation of his temporal power and the aggrandizement of his family.
		On 27 June of that year the Pope deposed his chief vassal, Federigo of Naples, on the plea of an alleged alliance with the Turks to the detriment of Christendom, and approved the secret Treaty of Granada, by the terms of which the Kingdom of Naples was partitioned between Spain and France.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01289a.htm (5465 words)

	Alexander Pope biography
		The elder Pope was a Roman Catholic, and to this faith the poet also nominally adhered, thus debarring himself from a university career.
		In his tenth year Pope was stricken by an illness which distorted his frame and robbed him of his plumpness and his color.
		Pope took as his supreme dunce Lewis Theobald (q.v.), who had criticized an edition of Shakespeare that Pope had brought out in 1725.
	www.dromo.info /popeabio.htm (880 words)

	Pope Alexander V Encyclopedia Article @ OnlineReligion.com (Online Religion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Alexander V was born in Crete of unknown parents and entered the Franciscan order.
		During his ten month reign, Alexander V's aim was to extend his obedience with the assistance of France, and, notably, of Duke Louis II of Anjou, upon whom he conferred the investiture of the Kingdom of Sicily, having removed it from Ladislas of Naples.
		This biography of a Pope or a claimant to the papacy is a stub.
	www.onlinereligion.com /encyclopedia/Pope_Alexander_V (598 words)

	Pope, Alexander. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Pope was born in London of Roman Catholic parents and moved to Binfield in 1700.
		In about 1717 Pope formed attachments to Martha Blount, a relationship that lasted his entire life, and to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with whom he later quarreled bitterly.
		Pope’s second period includes his magnificent, if somewhat inaccurate, translations of Homer, written in heroic couplets; the completed edition of the Iliad (1720); and the Odyssey (1725–26), written with William Broome and Elijah Fenton.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Pope-A.html (406 words)

	Alexander Pope Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Born to a Catholic family in 1688 he was educated mostly outside "normal" schools and colleges as a result of the penal laws that were in force at the time to uphold the status of the established Church of England.
		Alexander Pope wrote pastoral poetry under Queen Anne; under George I, he translated the Iliad and the Odyssey (the latter with less critical success); in the third part of his writing, Pope directly addressed the major religious and intellectual problems of his time.
		Pope was the last major poet to write in traditional rhyming couplets; he developed the heroic couplet beyond that of any previous poet, and essentially exhausted its usefulness for later poets.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexander_pope.html (325 words)

	BBC - Berkshire Features - Alexander Pope
		Alexander Pope was a leading poet in the eighteenth century, and for part of his life he lived in Binfield in Berkshire.
		Alexander Pope was born in London in 1688, but the family moved away due to the anti-catholic sentiment in England at the time, which meant Catholics were unable to live within 10 miles of London or Westminster.
		Pope lived in Binfield for 16 years and there are still several references to him in the village - Pope's Meadow (which used to be part of Pope's Manor), Pope's Wood and Pope's Manor.
	www.bbc.co.uk /berkshire/history/alexander_pope.shtml (494 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Alexander Pope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Alexander Pope was born in Plough Court, off Lombard Street, in the heart of the City of London on 21 May 1688.
		Pope's religion and his health were two of the dominant, shaping aspects of his life, becoming both a source of vulnerability and strength to him.
		Pope was a precocious child who “lisp'd in Numbers”, and at an early age became acquainted with the literary wits at Will's Coffee House who formed Dryden's circle.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5169 (707 words)

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		Pope met the Dean for the first time in Berkshire, where, in one of his fits of savage disgust at the conflicting parties of the period, he had retired to the house of a clergyman, and an intimacy commenced which was only terminated by death.
		Pope denied the charge, although it is very possible, both from his own temperament, and from the frequent occurrence of similar cases of baseness in literary life, that it may have been true.
		Pope, it was said, could not "drink tea without a stratagem," and far less publish his correspondence without a series of contemptible tricks--tricks, however, in which he was true to his nature--_that_ being a curious compound of the woman and the wit, the monkey and the genius[1].
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/7pop110.txt (19196 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Alexander Pope (1688)
		Pope's first publication was the "Pastorals"; "January and May", the latter a version of Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale"; and the "Episode of Sarpedon" from the "Iliad".
		Bolingbroke undoubtedly indoctrinated Pope with the trends of his own system of metaphysics and natural theology, and the fruit was seen in the "Essay on Man",; in four "Epistles" (1732- 34), and in the "Moral Essays", also in four "Epistles" (1731- 35).
		Regarding Pope's position in the literature of his country, there has been an extraordinary amount of controversy; some critics going the length of denying him the right to be called a poet at all.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=167 (2330 words)

	Johnson, "The Life of Pope"
		Pope was the greatest enemy the government had; and another bought his image in clay to execute him in effigy, with which sad sort of satisfaction the gentlemen were a little comforted.
		Pope seems to have known their imbecillity, and therefore suppressed them while he was yet contending to rise in reputation, but ventured them when he thought their deficiencies more likely to be imputed to Donne than to himself.
		Pope had now been enough acquainted with human life to know, if his passion had not been too powerful for his understanding, that from a contention like his with Cibber the world seeks nothing but diversion, which is given at the expence of the higher character.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Texts/pope.html (16731 words)

	Brief biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Pope's early education was affected by his Catholicism: Catholic schools, although illegal, were allowed to survive in some places.
		Prior to the move to Binfield Pope spent a year at Twyford, where he wrote "a satire on some faults of his master," which led to his being "whipped and ill-used...and taken from thence on that account." (Spence).
		A sketch of Pope) A more recent biographer (Maynard Mack 155-6) has written that Pope was "afflicted with constant headaches, sometimes so severe that he could barely see the paper he wrote upon, frequent violent pain at bone and muscle joints...shortness of breath, increasing inability to ride horseback or even walk for exercise...."
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~sconstan/popebio.html (328 words)

	Pope Bibliography (De Bruyn) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		A collection of this kind is especially relevant in Pope's case, given the highly public character of his satire and the extraordinary degree of public interest his life and poetry aroused.
		Argues that the "Augustan manner" of Pope's earlier poetry, whose "chief feature is a balance between opposing feelings and points of view," is increasingly called into question in his later poems, which confront the world and the reality of death in a more tragic vein.
		Discusses the thesis that Pope was committed to an "emotional Jacobitism" an opposition to the Hanoverian establishment colored by a lingering sense of allegiance to the exiled Stuarts.
	www.c18.rutgers.edu /biblio/pope.html (6565 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexander Pope
		Soon after this event Pope with his mother removed to the villa at Twickenham, which became his permanent abode, and which, with its five acres, its gardens, and its grotto, will be forever associated with his memory.
		Later Pope extended the work to five cantos, and by introducing the supernatural machinery of sylphs and gnomes and all the light militia of the lower sky, he gave to the world in 1714 one of its airiest, most delightful, and most cherished specimens of the mock-heroic poem.
		Bolingbroke undoubtedly indoctrinated Pope with the trends of his own system of metaphysics and natural theology, and the fruit was seen in the "Essay on Man", in four "Epistles" (1732- 34), and in the "Moral Essays", also in four "Epistles" (1731- 35).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12258c.htm (2157 words)

	Alexander Pope Literary Criticism
		Pope does not argue that evil does not exist; rather he argues that its existence does not preclude the justice of God.
		Pope has already shown that the failure to submit is a result of pride, and that it creates ridiculous envyings which threaten, in vain, to upset God's order.
		If Pope were reasoning from what he knows, he could only conclude that suffering and imperfection were senseless, because it appears that harmony and virtue would be better for man. Yet, Pope does not confess that discord and vice are beyond his comprehension.
	www.literatureclassics.com /ancientpaths/pope.html (2736 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : Alexander Pope
		Alexander Pope came to live in Twickenham in the spring of 1719.
		He became entranced by the geology of the gorge and its colours to the extent that he resolved to redesign the grotto as a museum of mineralogy and mining.
		He died in his villa, surrounded by friends and was buried in the nave of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Twickenham.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=19 (697 words)

	The Greatest Literature of All Time - Alexander Pope
		Alexander Pope is one of those old literary guys you've heard of, but you've never read, right?
		Alexander Pope in his day was the master of the one-liner.
		His first major success came with The Rape of the Lock (1712) which is a mock-heroic treatment of an actual incident involving a gentleman cutting a lock of hair from a beautiful young lady.
	www.editoreric.com /greatlit/authors/Pope.html (454 words)

	Alexander Pope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In "Elegy: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady," Pope seems to be cynical of reactions to the death of someone.
		Pope also probes the process of getting over the death of one close to you.
		One minute she says that "all is not heaven's while Abelard has part of [her] heart" and the next she claims that her passions and love for him have been "quenched" in the convent.
	las.alfred.edu /~egl/grove/1998/egl313/pope.html (899 words)

	Island of Freedom - Alexander Pope
		Alexander Pope was an English poet who, modeling himself after the great poets of classical antiquity, wrote highly polished verse, often in a didactic or satirical vein.
		Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad was published in six volumes from 1715 to 1720; a translation of the Odyssey followed (1725-1726).
		Pope and his friend Swift had for years written scornful and very successful critical reviews of those whom they considered poor writers; in 1727 they began a series of parodies of the same writers.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /POPE.HTM (598 words)

	RPO -- Selected Poetry of Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
		Pope’s early schooling was erratic and his faith precluded his attending university, but he became a model autodidact after the move to Binfield.
		In Pope’s hands a form that has since gone progressively moribund, but which was ubiquitous in his day, could move seamlessly from pastoral to satire to epic or moral epistle and be consistently effective.
		Much of Pope’s satirical verse was motivated by either his disdain for the legion of inferior writers who attacked him in print, and for many others whose only crime was their inferiority in Pope’s estimation, or his political agenda.
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poet/263.html (1119 words)

	Alexander VI, pope
		Beyazid II Alexander's son, Cesare Borgia, was the principal leader in papal affairs, and papal resources were spent lavishly in building up Cesare's power.
		Recent studies tend to minimize the pope's immorality and stress his solid achievements as a political strategist and church administrator.
		Alexander was a munificent patron of the arts.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0803218.html (301 words)

	Essays: Alexander Pope
		Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was born in London, England, and was the son of a Roman Catholic linen-draper.
		At the age of twelve he was stricken with a severe illness that affected his spine and stunted his growth (probably Potts disease).
		Barred from Protestant education because of his religion, Pope was largely self-taught, but by the age of seventeen, he was recognized as a prodigy.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/essays/pope.htm (453 words)

	Alexander Pope
		Alexander Pope: Life - Life Pope was born in London of Roman Catholic parents and moved to Binfield in 1700.
		Alexander Pope: Bibliography - Bibliography See the Twickenham edition of his poems (7 vol., 1951–61); his prose works ed.
		Alexander Pope: Works - Works Pope's poetry basically falls into three periods.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0839704.html (112 words)

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	Alexander Pope's Twickenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In March, 1719 Pope settled with his widowed mother in a villa--which he would occupy the house for the remaining twenty-five years of his life--with a small plot of land running down to the Thames near Twickenham.
		Just like a landscape hung up"--and great pains were taken to control light and shadow, perspective and point of view, and thus the spectator's mood.
		Over the years Twickenham became a more and more complex, finished, and tasteful work of art; one which embodied the complex relationship between Art and Nature which was a constant theme in Pope's work--and it provided him as well, of course, with a graceful and tranquil setting in which to spend a properly Horation retirement.
	www.victorianweb.org /previctorian/pope/twickenham.html (288 words)

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