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 | | Pope Paul II Pope Paul II, né Pietro Barbo (February 23, 1417 - July 26, 1471), was pope from 1464 to 1471. |
 | | Consequently, when in 1466, attempting to downsize redundant offices, Paul proceeded to annul the college of abbreviators, whose function it was to formulate papal documents, a storm of indignation arose, inasmuch as rhetoricians and poets had long been accustomed to benefiting from employment in such positions. |
 | | In the matter of war on the Turks, the Pope rejected the one sovereign who might have taken the lead, King George of Podebrady of Bohemia, and the unfortunate Bohemian king prosecuted as a heretic, on the grounds that he upheld the conventions of Basel (see Jan Hus) in favor of the Utraquists. |
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