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| | Pope Nicholas V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Nicholas V, né Tomaso Parentucelli (November 15, 1397 - March24, 1455), pope from the March 6, 1447 to March24, 1455, was born at Sarzana, Liguria, where his father was a physician. |
 | | The next year, 1450, Nicholas held a jubilee at Rome; and the offerings of the numerous pilgrims who thronged to Rome gave him themeans of furthering the cause of culture in Italy, which he had so much at heart. |
 | | Nicholas himself was a man of vast erudition, and his friend AeneasSilvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II) said of him that "what he does notknow is outside the range of human knowledge". |
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