41. Alexander Pope — Infoplease.com Encyclopedia Pope, Alexander. Pope, Alexander, 1688 – 1744, English poet. Although his literary reputation declined somewhat during the 19th cent., he is now recognized as http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839704.html

42. Pope, Alexander Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) was an English essayist, critic, satirist, and poet. Pope, with John Dryden, exemplified the neoclassical adherence to forms and http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Alexander_Pope

Pope, Alexander From New World Encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Previous (Alexander Nevsky) Next (Alexander Pushkin) Alexander Pope , English poet. Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) was an English essayist, critic, satirist, and poet. Pope, with John Dryden , exemplified the neoclassical adherence to forms and traditions, based on classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome , that was characteristic of his age. The never-married Pope's physical defects made him an easy target for mockery, and Pope often answered with biting satire that either spoofed the mores of society as in The Rape of the Lock or mocked his literary rivals as in The Dunciad and many of his shorter poems. Pope suffered for being a Catholic among Anglicans , and an independent writer living in a time when writing was not considered viable as a self-sustaining career. Despite these challenges, Pope is considered by critics to be one of the greatest poets of the eighteenth century. Pope is remembered for a number of the English language's best-known maxims, including "A little learning is a dangerous thing"; "To err is human, to forgive, divine"; and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Contents Early life Early literary career The Rape of the Lock The middle years: Homer and Shakespeare ... Credits Early life Alexander Pope was born in the City of London to Alexander, Sr., a linen merchant, and Edith Pope, who were both

43. Borgia Family - History And Bibliography Listing of books and other media from Alonso Borgia (Pope Calixtus III), to Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) on to Caesare, Lucrezia and Saint Francis Borgia. Full listing also available in pdf format. http://www.tennapel.net/borgia

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44. Pope Alexander VII: Biography From Answers.com A papacy that began with high hopes was soon marred by nepotism, nevertheless, Alexander VII (1599 1667) took strong stands on church matters and bequeathed to Rome and the http://www.answers.com/topic/pope-alexander-vii

var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Animal Life Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology Pope Alexander VII Biography: Alexander VII Home Library Miscellaneous Biographies A papacy that began with high hopes was soon marred by nepotism, nevertheless, Alexander VII (1599 - 1667) took strong stands on church matters and bequeathed to Rome and the world some of the most endearing baroque works. Born Fabio Chigi in Sienna, Papal States, on February 13, 1599, the future Pope Alexander VII came from one of Sienna's more powerful families. His father was a nephew of Pope Paul V. Ill-health prevented the young Chigi from attending school, but he was taught first by his mother then a succession of tutors. At age twenty-seven he earned doctorates in philosophy, law, and theology from the University of Sienna. Became Career Diplomat Prior to being elected pope Chigi was a career ecclesiastical diplomat. In 1627 Pope Urban VIII appointed him as vice-legate of Ferrara . From there he became inquisitor of Malta and later nuncio in Cologne. In the latter post he participated in the negotiations that led to the 1648

45. Alexander Pope - Kalliope V rker, digttitler, f rstelinier fra digte, s gning, popul re digte, portr tter, biografi og samtid. http://www.kalliope.org/ffront.cgi?fhandle=pope

46. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander VII Biographical article on this seventeenth-century pontiff. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01294a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... A > Pope Alexander VII Pope Alexander VII Fabio Chigi, born at Sienna , 13 February, 1599; elected 7 April, 1655; died at Rome , 22 May, 1667. The Chigi of Sienna were among the most illustrious and powerful of Italian families . In the Rome of Renaissance times, an ancestor of Alexander VII was known as the "Magnificent". The future Pope's father, Flavio Chigi, nephew of Pope Paul V , though not as prosperous as his forebears, gave his son a suitable training. The latter owed much also to his mother, a woman of singular power and skill in the formation of youth. The youth of Fabio was marked by continued ill-health, consequent upon an attack of apoplexy in infancy. Unable to attend school , he was taught first by his mother, and later by able tutors, and displayed remarkable precocity and love of reading. In his twenty-seventh year, he obtained the doctorates of philosophy law , and theology in the University of Sienna , and in December, 1626, he entered upon his ecclesiastical career at Rome . In 1627 he was appointed by Urban VIII Vice-Legate of Ferrara , and he served five years under the Cardinals Sacchetti and Pallotta, whose commendations won for him the important post of

47. The Death Of Alexander VI, 1503 An Eyewitness account of the death of the last of the Borgia Poes http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexanderVI.htm

Middle Ages/ Renaissance Life in a Christian Monastery, ca. 585 The Vikings Discover America, ca. 1000 ... An Audience with Queen Elizabeth I, 1597 The Death of Pope Alexander VI, 1503 Printer Friendly Version >>> T he collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century created a political and cultural vacuum that was filled, in part, by the Roman Catholic Church. For the next 1000 years the continuity of the Church of Rome provided a semblance of stability as Europe sank into barbarism. By the dawn of the Renaissance, however, the mission of the papacy had been corrupted by the conflict between its sacred duties as the Vicar of Christ and its temporal responsibilities as head of the Papal States. This was not the papacy's finest hour. Pope Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI epitomizes this corruption. Born as Rodrigo Borgia in Spain in 1431, he was elected Pope in 1492, an event that spawned rumors that he had spent a considerable fortune bribing the appropriate Cardinals to assure his success. The new Pope loved the good life. He sired at least twelve children through a number of mistresses. The most famous of his offspring were his son Cesare, noted for the murder of political rivals, and his daughter Lucrezia who was married off to a number of husbands for political gain.

48. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem Summarizes this intervention in the Jansenist controversy by Pope Alexander VII. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01128b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... A > Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem This letter was issued by Alexander VII , and is dated at Rome , 16 October, 1656, the second year of his pontificate. It is a confirmation of the Constitution of Innocent X , by which he condemned five propositions taken from the work entitled Augustinus of Cornelius Jansenius Bishop of Ypres . The letter opens with an explanation of the reason for its publication. It observes that, although what has already been defined in the Apostolic Constitutions needs no confirmation by any future decisions, yet, since some try to cast doubt upon these definitions or to neutralise their effort by false interpretations, the apostolic authority must not defer using a prompt remedy against the spread of the evil . The letter then refers to the decision of Innocent X , and quotes the words of its title in order to show that it was a decision for all the faithful . But as a controversy had arisen, especially in France , on five propositions taken from the Augustinus , several French bishops submitted them to Alexander VII for a clear, definite decision. The letter thus enumerates these five propositions: (1) There are some divine

49. Pope, Alexander Quote - All Looks Yellow To A Jaundiced Eye.... Famous quote by Pope, Alexander All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. on Quotations Book http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32105/

50. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Anselm Of Lucca, The Younger Appointed bishop of Lucca by his uncle Anselm of Lucca the Elder (Pope Alexander II), then became a Benedictine monk, served as papal legate, and died in 1086. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01550d.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... A > St. Anselm of Lucca, the Younger St. Anselm of Lucca, the Younger Born at Mantua c. 1036; d. in the same city, 18 March, 1086. He was nephew of Anselm of Lucca , the Elder , who ascended the Papal throne as Alexander II in 1061. In the year 1071 Alexander II designated Anselm as Bishop of Lucca and sent him to Germany to take investiture from Henry IV . Anselm went to Germany , but was loath to receive the insignia of spiritual power from a temporal ruler and returned without investiture . In 1073 Gregory VII successor of Alexander II , also appointed Anselm Bishop of Lucca , but advised him not to accept his ring and crosier from Henry IV . For some reason , Anselm accepted investiture from Henry , but soon felt such remorse that he resigned his bishopric and entered the Order of St. Benedict at Padilirone, a monastery of the Cluniac Reform, situated near Mantua Gregory VII ordered him to return to his episcopal see at Lucca . Anselm returned reluctantly, but continued to lead time life of a monk until his death. Inspired , like Gregory VII , with a holy zeal to reform the clergy , he wished to impose stricter discipline upon the canons of his cathedral . Most of the canons refused to submit to Anselms regulations, and in 1081 he was expelled from

51. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexander Pope (Catholic Encyclopedia) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12258c.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... P > Alexander Pope Alexander Pope Poet, son of Alexander Pope and his second wife, Edith Turner, b. in London England , 22 May, 1688; d. at Twickenham England , 30 May, 1744. His parents were both Catholics , and the son lived and died in the profession of the faith to which he was born. The poet's father was a linen merchant in Lombard Street, London , who before the end of the seventeenth century retired on a moderate fortune first to Kensington, then to Binfield, and finally to Chiswick , where he died in 1717. 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 . As a child he was very delicate, and he retained a constitutional weakness as well as a deformity of body all through his life, while in stature he was very diminutive. His early education was spasmodic and irregular , but before he was twelve he had picked up a smattering of Latin and Greek from various tutors and at sundry schools , and subsequently he acquired a similar knowledge of French and Italian . From his thirteenth year onward he was self-instructed and he was an extensive reader. Barred from a political and to a great extent from a professional career by the penal laws then in force against Catholics , he did not feel the restraint very acutely, for his earliest aspiration was to be a poet, and at an exceptionally youthful period he was engaged in writing verses. His first

52. GREAT EPOCHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY A mediated peace treaty between the two Catholic sea faring powers Portugal and Spain that gave Spain the lion s share of the New World to convert and colonize while giving Portugal Brazil. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/preservation/epochs/vol1/pg38.htm

THE BULL OF POPE ALEXANDER VI. PARTITIONING AMERICA The copy of the bull, or donation, by the authority whereof Pope Alexander, the sixth of that name, gave and granted to the kings of Castile and their successors the regions and lands found in the west ocean sea by the navigations of the Spanish. Alexander, bishop, the servant of the servants of God: To our most dearly beloved son in Christ, King Ferdinand, and to our dearly beloved daughter in Christ, Elizabeth, Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily, and Granada, most noble princes, greeting and apostolic benediction. We are credibly informed that, whereas of late you were determined to seek and find certain islands and firm lands far remote and unknown (and not heretofore found by any other), to the intent to bring the inhabitants of the same to honor our Redeemer and to profess the Catholic faith, you have hitherto been much occupied in the expugnation and recovery of the kingdom of Granada, by reason whereof you could not bring your said laudable purpose to the end desired. Nevertheless, as it hath pleased Almighty God, the aforesaid kingdom being recovered, willing to accomplish your said desire, you have, not without great labor, perils, and charges, appointed our well-beloved son Christopher Columbus (a man very well commended as most worthy and apt for so great a matter), well furnished with men and ships and other necessaries, to seek (by the sea where hitherto no man hath sailed), such firm lands and islands far remote and hitherto unknown.

53. Pope, Alexander - Definition Of Pope, Alexander In The Medical Dictionary - By T Disclaimer All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Pope, Alexander

54. Rodrigo Borgia - Pope Alexander VI | Italy Rodrigo de Borja was born in X tiva, near Valencia, in Spain on January 1, 1431. In Italian, he is known as Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia; or more commonly as, Pope Alexander VI http://www.lifeinitaly.com/heroes-villains/rodrigo-borgia.asp

55. Cultural Catholic - Pope Alexander II (1061-1073) Pope Alexander II was the 156th Roman Catholic pontiff from 1061 to 1073. Pope Alexander II was a reform pontiff and aggressively pursued priest misconduct. http://www.culturalcatholic.com/PopeAlexanderII.htm

Medicare Wine English Vacation Retreat ... Nuns Having Fun 2011 Calendar Pope Alexander II th Pontiff (1061-1073) Anselmo Baggio was born of noble parentage near Milan, Italy, and studied at the famous Monastery of Bec under the scholar, Lanfranc, who was a leader of the Patari which was a group which targeted priest misconduct. Cardinal Anselmo, Bishop of Lucca in Italy, was enthroned as Pope Alexander II on October 1, 1061. Because the cardinal-electors failed to seek ascent from the German imperial court, the German imperial court elected Cardinal Cadalus of Parma, Italy, as Pope Honorius II on October 28, 1061, without any canon right and without the presence of a single cardinal. In 1064 after much infighting, Pope Alexander II was formally recognized as the legitimate pope, and Honorius II was excommunicated, but he never conceded, insisting until his death in 1072 that he was the pope. Pope Alexander II adopted his predecessor Pope Nicholas II's fervor for reform. Pope Alexander II’s papacy set the groundwork for

56. Alexander, VI Biography | BookRags.com (born 1431, J tiva, Aragon—died Aug. 18, 1503, Rome) Pope (1492–1503). Born into more. Pope Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI1 (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503), born Roderigo http://www.bookrags.com/biography/alexander-vi/

57. Pope, Alexander | Define Pope, Alexander At Dictionary.com Cultural Dictionary Pope, Alexander definition An eighteenthcentury English poet known for his satiric wit and insistence on the values of classicism in literature balance http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pope, alexander?qsrc=2446

58. Pope Alexander VII Pope Alexander VII. AKA Fabio Chigi. Born 13Feb-1599 Birthplace Siena, Italy Died 22-May-1667 Location of death Rome, Italy Cause of death unspecified http://www.nndb.com/people/274/000094989/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Pope Alexander VII AKA Fabio Chigi Born: 13-Feb Birthplace: Siena, Italy Died: 22-May Location of death: Rome, Italy Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Religion Nationality: Italy Executive summary: Roman Catholic Pope, 1655-67 Alexander VII, given name Fabio Chigi, Roman Catholic Pope from 1655 to 1667, was born at Siena on the 13th of February 1599. He was successively inquisitor at Malta, vice-legate at Ferrara, and nuncio in Cologne (1639-51). Though expected to take part in the negotiations which led in 1648 to the peace at Westphalia, he refused to deliberate with heretics, and protested against the treaties when completed. Pope Innocent X subsequently amde him cardinal secretary-of-state. When Innocent died, Chigi, the candidate favored by Spain, was elected pope on the 7th of April 1655. The concave believed he was strongly opposed to the nepotism then prevalent. In the first year of his reign as Alexander VII forbade his relations even to visit Rome; but in 1656 he gave them the best-paid civil and ecclesiastical offices, also palaces and princely estates. Alexander disliked business of state, preferring literature and philosophy; a collection of his Latin poems appeared in Paris under the title Philomathi Labores Juveniles . He also encouraged architecture, and in particular constructed the beautiful colonnade in the piazza of St. Peter's. He favored the Jesuits, especially in their conflict with the Jansenists, forbade in 1661 the translation of the Roman Missal into French, and in 1665 canonized

59. Pope, Alexander Summary | BookRags.com Pope, Alexander. Pope, Alexander summary with encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/eb/pope-alexander-eb/

60. Pope, Alexander Quote - Remembrance And Reflection How Allied. What Thin Partiti Famous quote by Pope, Alexander Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. on Quotations Book http://www.quotationsbook.com/quote/25997/

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