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RENAISSANCE ROME
Avignon Papacy (1305-1378)
Great Schism (1378-1414)
after return from Avignon, French elect rival Pope
Conciliarism theory that highest authority in Church is a
Council of Bishops proposed to end Schism
threat to idea of papal monarchy
1409 Council of Pisa: elects new Pope -- Avignon & Rome refuse to resign;
three papal lines (Rome, Avignon, Pisa)
1414 Council of Constance:
all three Popes deposed; 1417 elects Martin V
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POPES: The return to Rome
Martin V Colonna, Roman noble
1420 enters Rome as first Pope after Schism
appoints Cosimo di Medici (Florentine) as papal banker
Eugenius IV
1434 Roman uprising; takes refuge in Florence
suppresses Roman nobility in Latium
Council of Ferrara & Florence 1438-9;
Eastern (Greek) Emperor John Palaeologus
& Orthodox Patriarch seek aid against Turks
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Renaissance Papacy during late 15th and early 16th C.
NICHOLAS V 1447-55
1st humanist Pope: studied Greek in Florence
Founder of Vatican Library: manuscript collector;
has scribes copy all known Latin & Greek manuscripts
building program for Rome
refortification of Castel Sant'Angelo
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Castel Sant’Angelo (Tomb of Hadrian) refortified by Nicholas V
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Pope Pius II 1458-1464
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, noble of Siena
humanist, conciliarist; wrote memoir of his life
Papal monarchy re-asserted:
1460 Execrabilis – papal bull declaring conciliarism a heresy
reply to the contradiction of having been a conciliartist:
“Forget Aeneas, follow Pius.”
forbidden to appeal to a council over a Pope
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Pinturrichio frescoes in Piccolomini Library Siena
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Pius II
reaches
Ancona in
1464
to launch a
Crusade
against
Ottoman
Turks
Pinturrichio
Siena
Cathedral
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Sixtus IV (1471-1480) Della Rovere
(uncle of later Pope Julius
II)
builds Sistine Chapel in Vatican
Palace;
nepotism (promotes relatives, from
“nephew”)
1475 Ponte Sisto (built for Jubilee)
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Sistine Chapel – constructed by Sixtus IV, Della Rovere
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Sixtus IV
(1471-1484)
and his
nephews
Melozzo da
Forli
Vatican
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Sixtus IV and his nephews
Clerics:
Center:
Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, later Julius II
Behind Pope: Raffaele Riario – builder of Cancelleria
Lay nephews:
Girolamo Riario: Lord of Imola and Forli
husband of Caterina Sforza
assasinated 1488 by agents of Lorenzo dei Medici
as revenge for 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy
Giovanni della Rovere
Librarian Platina (kneeling)
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Cancelleria begun 1489
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Ponte Sisto
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Christ handing Peter the Keys of the Kingdom Perugino
Sistine Chapel Wall 1481
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Innocent VIII (1480-1492)
financial corruption, indulgence sales
first Pope to publicly recognize his (many) children
marriage of his illegitimate son to daughter of Lorenzo
de’ Medici
Lorenzo’s son Giovanni made Cardinal at age 13
(later Leo X)
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Alexander VI Borgia (1492-1503) Spaniard
son Cesare Borgia (Duke Valentino)
head of papal armies
= Machiavelli's hero: man of action, hope to unify Italy
daughter Lucrezia Borgia
married in ceremony in Vatican
to Duke of Este (Ferrara)
mistress Giulietta Farnese:
her brother made Cardinal, later Paul III
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Julius II della Rovere (1503-1513)
"warrior Pope," personally directs Papal troops in battle
conquest of Bologna; expands boundaries of Papal States
goal of driving the French out of Italy
Erasmus' pacifistic treatise: Julius Exclusus (from Heaven)
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Frontispiece to
Erasmus’
Julius Exclusis
(Julius
Excluded from
Heaven by St.
Peter)
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Raphael
Julius II
della Rovere
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Raphael
The Sistine Madonna
with Pope Julius II
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Raphael
Leo X Medici
son of Lorenzo
Pope 1513-
1521
“God has given
us the Papacy,
now let us
enjoy it.”
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Medici coat of arms
(red balls on gold background)
Medici Pope Leo X with
the keys of St. Peter
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Old St. Peter’s
Basilica
in Rome
built by
Constantine
around 320
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