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Pope Pius IV: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... Florence made him very subservient to all Cosimo's wishes. Pius IV was sixty-two years old, of medium height, medium build and medium colouring. He had a pleasant sympathetic countenance, ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-pius-iv.htm - 24k
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Pope Paul IV: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... flesh. His expression and all his movements have the litheness of youth. Although seventy-nine years old he seems to skim along the ground sooner than to walk. He has two ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-paul-iv.htm - 26k
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Pope Julius III: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... grandson. Although still very young, barely thirty years of age, he had shown great qualities ... been due to a strange incident. Some years previously, when the Pope was legate at ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-julius-iii.htm - 25k
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Pope Paul III: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... veteran, that he survived his elevation fifteen years. Nor were they years of an invalid' ... been the main interest of his later years, was the weapon chosen by fate wherewith ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-paul-iii.htm - 21k
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Pope Clement VII: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election. ...
... ruthless, and he continued to vent his rancour on the unfortunate citizens during the remaining years of his pontificate, setting far greater store by his family fortunes than by the important ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-clement-vii.htm - 27k
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Pope Leo X: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... and the primitive conditions of life to which they had been subjected for so many years. They had strongly resented the inconsiderate manner in which Julius II had burdened them with ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-leo-x.htm - 28k
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Pope Julius II: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... virile - too impatient to be far-sighted yet not devoid of shrewdness. In his latter years he became obsessed by his hatred of France. As he lay on his deathbed he ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-julius-ii.htm - 19k
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Pope Urban VIII: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... had so much feared - his eighty-five years were certainly a point in his favour, ... a signal triumph for French diplomacy. Those years of his nunciature at the French Court ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-urban-viii.htm - 33k
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Pope Gregory XV: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... XV, reigned for two and a half years and his short pontificate is one of ... accomplished during the two and a half years of Gregory's pontificate to restore the ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-gregory-xv.htm - 21k
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Pope Paul V: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
... down. The older cardinals gazed with consternation on this Hercules, who was only fifty-nine years of age and might well be expected to see them all into their graves. The ...
www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-paul-v.htm - 24k
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