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Pope Sixtus IV sat behind a gilded desk, pulling apart a pomegranate, which he ate throughout the interview, spitting the seeds into a silver dish between sentences.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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The beneficiary of nepotism -- his uncle was Sixtus IV, who made the young Giuliano a cardinal -- Julius II bribed his way to election as pontiff.
Thomas Worcester: From Prince To Pastor: How The Papacy Has Changed Thomas Worcester 2010
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The beneficiary of nepotism -- his uncle was Sixtus IV, who made the young Giuliano a cardinal -- Julius II bribed his way to election as pontiff.
Thomas Worcester: From Prince To Pastor: How the Papacy Has Changed Thomas Worcester 2010
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The beneficiary of nepotism -- his uncle was Sixtus IV, who made the young Giuliano a cardinal -- Julius II bribed his way to election as pontiff.
Thomas Worcester: From Prince To Pastor: How the Papacy Has Changed Thomas Worcester 2010
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The beneficiary of nepotism -- his uncle was Sixtus IV, who made the young Giuliano a cardinal -- Julius II bribed his way to election as pontiff.
Thomas Worcester: From Prince To Pastor: How The Papacy Has Changed Thomas Worcester 2010
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Pope Sixtus IV was requesting a loan of forty thousand ducats—a huge sum—for his so-called nephew Girolamo.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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For the next eight years he belonged to the papal choir of Sixtus IV (1471–84) and Innocent VIII (1484–92), turning down a tempting proposal to return to Milan in spring 1482.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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He might have suffered seriously but for the protection of Sixtus IV, then Pope, who had been one of his scholars ....
Quentin Durward 2008
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“Paul II loved to have a great variety of dishes at his table”: translation, slightly amended, of Platina, The Lives of the Popes, from the time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Reign of Sixtus IV, trans.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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His successor, Sixtus IV, quickly took Platina and the other members of the academy to his bosom, and soon gave them jobs within the Church establishment.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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