Alexander VII

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noun

1. Fabio Chigi, 1599–1667, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1655–67.

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Example Sentences

It was design’d by the celebrated126 Bernini, and executed in the manner as it now appears to us by Pope Alexander VII.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"He is a man powerful in word and deed," he wrote to Pope Alexander VII, "a practising Christian, and the right arm of religion."

From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Leblond de Brumath, Adrien

One especially magnificent chapel arrests the attention, and leaves a lasting impression—that of the Chigi family, built by Fabio Chigi, better known as Pope Alexander VII.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

See especially the Index of 1664, issued under order of Alexander VII, and that of 1761, under Benedict XIV.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

Pietro da Cortona added the peculiar semicircular portico under Alexander VII.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.