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	Pope Sixtus IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere (July 21, 1414 – August 12, 1484) was Pope from 1471 to 1484, essentially a Renaissance prince, the Sixtus of the Sistine Chapel where the team of artists he brought together introduced the Early Renaissance to Rome with a masterpiece.
		Sixtus consented to the Spanish Inquisition and issued a bull in 1478 that established an Inquisitor in Seville, under political pressure from Ferdinand of Aragon, who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of Sicily.
		The cardinals of Sixtus IV At the death of Sixtus, the conclave of cardinals that met to elect his successor numbered thirty-two surviving cardinals, a greater number than at any time since the close of the twelfth century, excepting perhaps for the multiplied rival cardinalates of the Great Schism (1378-1417).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Sixtus_IV (792 words)

	Sixtus IV. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sixtus was expected to be a reformer, but he was too much embroiled in political difficulties.
		Sixtus consented (1478) to the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition and then found the Spanish ignoring his rebukes for illegal procedure and jurisdiction and his demands for moderation.
		Sixtus was an excellent administrator of the city and did much to improve and beautify Rome.
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	Popes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sixtus IV's relations were strained with France, whose king Louis XI firmly upheld the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), which had established the liberties of the French Church.
		Apart from meddling in feuds between the great Roman families, Sixtus IV committed himself rather scandalously to Venice's aggression against the kingdom of Ferrara, which he incited the Venetians to attack (1482); their combined assault was intervened by Milan, Florence, and Naples.
		In ecclesiastical affairs, Sixtus IV instituted for the Roman Church the feast (December 8) of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
	www.wga.hu /database/glossary/popes/sixtus4.html (585 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Early Modern: Lecture Ten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Piero Riario, one of the older of Sixtus IV's sixteen nephews and grand nephews, was made Cardinal in 1471 and took the opportunity to orchestrate the Papacy as though Sixtus IV was an Italian secular prince, largely for the benefit of the Riario-Rovere family.
		Sixtus IV celebrated the Papal Jubilee in 1475 and when he dispatched the indulgence distributors after the Jubilee in 1476 he announced that indulgences were of benefit to souls already in Purgatory whose bereaved relatives took the initiative and made the contribution in their behalf.
		Sixtus IV also sincerely continued to call for a crusade against the Ottomans who landed in Italy in December of 1480, but the death of Muhammad II in 1481 and the civil war among these would-be successors were good excuses for the western Europeans to miss a perfect opportunity.
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	Hist of Christ'n Church 6 (ii.vii.v) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The chief features of the reign of Sixtus IV., a man of great decision and ability, were the insolent rule of his numerous nephews and the wars with the states of Italy in which their intrigues and ambitions involved their uncle.
		Sixtus was blessed or burdened with 16 nephews and grandnephews.
		Sixtus deemed no less than five of his nephews and a grandnephew deserving of the red hat, and sooner or later eight of them were introduced into the college of cardinals.
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	Sixtus IV
		It is generally agreed that Sixtus himself was of good character — his enemy, Infessura, an anti-Papal Italian, accused him groundlessly of unnatural vice and general unscrupulousness — but in secular affairs he was particularly inept.
		Sixtus got involved in the Pazzi conspiracy, planned by his nephew, Cardinal Rafael Riario, and aiming to overthrow the Medici and bring Florence under his control.
		It is true that Sixtus sponsored the building of the Sistine Chapel and Sistine Bridge, which are named for him, and revived the Vatican Library, opening it to scholars — but these were accomplished with nepotism, heavy taxation and simony.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Sixtus IV
		Sixtus continued the policy of his predecessor Paul II with regard to France, and denounced Louis XI for insisting on the royal consent being given before papal decrees could be published in his kingdom.
		The attitude of Sixtus towards the conspiracy of the Pazzi, his wars and treachery, his promotion to the highest offices in the Church of such men as Pietro and Girolamo are blots upon his career.
		PASTOR, History of the Popes, IV (London, 1894); GREGOROVIUS, Rome in the Middle Ages, IV (London, 1901); BURKHARDT, Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien (1904); FRANTZ, Sixtus IV und die Republik Florenz (Ratisbon, 1880).
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	History of the Popes
		Sixtus also decreed that a bishop who had been summoned to Rome should not be received by his people when he returned until he presented the letter of greeting from the Apostolic See.
		SIXTUS III 432 - 440 Sixtus was one of those gentle souls who seem to exist for the purpose of binding wounds and healing bruises.
		Sixtus celebrated the council by rebuilding the old basilica of Pope Liberius and decorating it with magnificent mosaics picturing the childhood of Jesus and the life of Mary.
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		Sixtus V prepared for the conversion of Henry IV, Death of Sixtus V, 1590.
		Sixtus thought that the heretics would be more easily put down by the hand of the Prince of Savoy than they could be by the King of France, distracted as he was on every side by the factions which were tearing his kingdom in pieces.
		Sixtus V felt that the time had come to set up a new constitution for the government of the Church which should secure its expeditious and systematic conduct and avoid the many inconveniences of the old methods.
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	Encyclopedia: Pope Sixtus IV
		Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, ca 1477, by Melozzo da Forlì (Forlì 1438-1494), fresco removed and transferred to canvas Vatican Museums, cat.
		Events February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
		Papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, 1637, sealed with a leaden bulla.
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		Sixtus IV (1414-1484), pope (1471-1484), who was a notable patron of arts and letters, but whose reign was marked by political intrigue and...
		Pius IV (1499-1565), pope (1559-1565), who presided over the conclusion of the Council of Trent.
		Sixtus V (1529-1590), pope (1585-1590), who directed a major reform of Church administration.
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	SIXTUS IV
		SIXTUS IV Francesco Della Rovere was born at Celle on July 21, 1414, of poor parents.
		Sixtus lowered the prestige of the papacy also by becoming involved in a shabby conspiracy to overthrow the Medici in Florence.
		Sixtus IV died August 12, 1484, in the midst of diplomatic and military failure.
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	Pope Sixtus IV -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like a number of popes, Sixtus was guilty of (Favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)) nepotism.
		In ecclesiastical affairs, Sixtus instituted the feast (December 8) of the ((Christianity) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin) Immaculate Conception of the (A Bloody Mary made without alcohol) Virgin Mary.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about Sistine Chapel) Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus, as was the Sistine Bridge, to facilitate the integration of the (The residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City) Vatican with the heart of old Rome.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/pope_sixtus_iv1.htm (520 words)

	Introduction (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For all that Sixtus IV is known to have contributed some of his own books to the library in his lifetime, and to have acquired others, there is also the inescapable fact that Sixtus did not have to begin from scratch.
		If Sixtus IV now chose the ground floor of that wing for his "libraries," the chances are good that this is because he had no choice.
		That too is surely the spirit of the one significant change in staffing the library in the century that separates Sixtus IV from the "third founder" of the Vatican Library, Sixtus V (1585-90): the establishment about 1540 of three scriptores or academic staff to represent the interests of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages.
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	2 THE REIGNS OF SIXTUS IV AND INNOCENT VIII
		Under the pontificate of Sixtus IV the position and influence of Cardinal Roderigo were greatly increased, for once again the Spanish Cardinal had made the most of his opportunities.
		September 12, 1484.-A Bull of Sixtus IV, appointing Cesare treasurer of the Church of Carthage.
		Meanwhile the turbulent reign of Sixtus IV went on, until his ambition to increase his dominions had the result of plunging the whole of Italy into war.
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	Pope_Sixtus_IV
		Nevertheless, Sixtus quarrelled over protocol and perogatives of jurisdiction, was unhappy with the excesses of the Inquisition and took measures to condemn the most flagrant abuses in 1482, though he sold indulgences and is said to have fathered his sister's son.
		The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus, as was the Sistine Bridge, to facilitate the integration of the Vatican with the heart of old Rome.
		Six further cardinals survived from the pontificate of Paul II: Thomas Bourchier, Oliviero Caraffa, Marco Barbo, Jean Balue, Giovanni Battista Zeno, and Giovanni Michiel.
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	Dublin Drunken Popes - Uncyclopedia
		His Holiness Pope Sixtus IV kicks ass on the footy field.
		Founded in 1209 by Pope Sixtus IV (who was exiled to Ireland after a short tenure as host on Spanish Inquisition), the club was originally called just the Dublin Popes, but "Drunken" was added by Sixtus himself while he was drunk.
		Currently Pope Sixtus IV can be seen at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem performing his one-man show and Def Poetry session "Popin' Ain't Easy".
	www.uncyclopedia.org /uncyclopedia/index.php?title=Dublin_Drunken_Popes (667 words)

	Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library
		Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, circa 1477
		Platina, kneeling in the centre, receives the investiture and points the index finger of his right hand to an inscription composed by him that exalts the enterprises of Sixtus IV in the city of Rome.
		Sixtus IV is seated on his throne on the right, among his cardinal nephews and lay nephews.
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		Sixtus IV (1414-84), pope (1471-84), who was a notable patron of arts and letters, but whose reign was marked by political intrigue and corruption....
		The title of Pope is given to the bishop of Rome who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Foldout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1303, he drew up a decree excommunicating King Philip IV of France, but before this could be issued, the papal palace at Anagni was attacked by a group of 2000 mercenaries led by William de Nogaret, one of Philip's aides.
		In 1309, King Philip IV of France force the election of Clement, a Frenchman, and moved the papal seat to Avignon in France.
		Sixtus approved the Spanish Inquisition and issued a bull in 1478 to establish an Inquisitor in Seville.
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		According to recent research, chiefly that of Jose Ruysschaert, lately vice- prefect of the Vatican Library, it was indeed Nicholas V who conceived the idea of a public or "Vatican" library, as distinct, that is, from a purely papal or private one, but it was Sixtus IV who actually put flesh on the idea.
		It was precisely Sixtus IV who supplied these, first in theory in his bull "Ad decorem" of 1475, then in practice between 1475 and 1481, when the redoubtable Bartolomeo Platina was his librarian.(1) Does it really matter which pope gets the credit for founding the Vatican Library?
		The books of Nicholas V and Sixtus IV are listed in Eugene Muntz and Paul Fabre, La Bibliotheque du Vatican au XVe siecle, Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome 48 (Paris, 1887), 35-114 (Nicholas V); 135-250, 260-69 (Sixtus IV).
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	AllRefer.com - Sixtus IV (Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Sixtus IV (Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes) - Encyclopedia
		Sixtus IV[sik´stus] Pronunciation Key, 1414–84, pope (1471–84), an Italian named Francesco della Rovere (b.
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	Sixtus Iv - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Sixtus IV, 1414-84, pope (1471-84), an Italian named Francesco della Rovere (b.
		(1478), since an important instigator was Girolamo Riario, nephew of Sixtus, and the pope seems to have had prior knowledge of the plot.
		Sixtus consented (1478) to the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition
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	Superna caelestis -- Pope Sixtus IV
		Superna caelestis -- Pope Sixtus IV Superna caelestis
		Pope Sixtus IV Servant of the Servants of God
		Given at Rome at St. Peter's, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation, one thousand four hundred and eight-two, on the eighteenth of the Calends of May in the eleventh year of Our pontificate.
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	Monument of Sixtus IV by POLLAIUOLO, Antonio del
		Monument of Sixtus IV by POLLAIUOLO, Antonio del
		The tomb of Sixtus IV was commissioned from Antonio del Pollaiuolo by Sixtus' nephew, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II).
		Vasari described the tomb as "completed at great expense." The bronze tomb, on a raised platform, looks like the scaled-up product of a goldsmith's workshop, of chased metalwork and bronze tracery.
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	Patron Saints Index: Pope Sixtus IV
		Sixtus preached Crusade against the Turks, and sent legates throughout Europe to drum up support.
		Some troops were raised, some field action taken, but very little was accomplished.
		Sixtus spread his good work through the city of Rome, improving the infrastructure, and the water and sewer systems.
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	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Sixtus IV
		Born in 1414 near Savona, Francesco della Rovere was a Franciscan who taught at several universities and wrote treatises on the issues that divided his order from the Dominicans, until he was elected pope in 1471.
		A patron of Botticelli, Sixtus was also responsible for the rebuilding of several Roman churches and the construction of the Sistine Chapel.
		Although Sixtus appointed Thomas de Torquemata to the Spanish Inquisition, the pope condemned the inquistion's abuses.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=922 (210 words)

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