Leo X

noun

1. Giovanni de'Medici, 1475–1521, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1513–21 (son of Lorenzo de'Medici).

Leo X

noun

1. Leo X14751521MItalianRELIGION: pope original name Giovanni de' Medici. 1475–1521, pope (1513–21): noted for his patronage of Renaissance art and learning; excommunicated Luther (1521)

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This great man even refused the offer of a principality made to him by Leo X.

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Yet when Leo X. sent him to quarry marbles for nine years, he submitted without complaint.

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But it was too important to escape the attention of even Leo X., although at first he gave it no thought.

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Leo X, the cardinals, and all Rome, were exulting in the belief that their enemy was already in their power.

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Such was the treatise which accompanied Luther's letter to Leo X.

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