Clement XI

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noun

1. Giovanni Francesco Albani, 1649–1721, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1700–21.

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Example Sentences

"La Resurrezione" is a product of Handel's apprenticeship in Rome, where it had its premiere on Easter Sunday in 1708 and immediately offended Pope Clement XI.

From Los Angeles Times

The upper church, in spite of modernizations under Clement XI. in the last century, retains more of the details belonging to primitive ecclesiastical architecture than any other building in Rome.

From Project Gutenberg

He took the Name of Clement XII. in Honour to the Memory of Clement XI. who made him a Cardinal.

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Cardinal Noailles, Archbishop of Paris, was at first one of its strongest supporters until the book, after a critical examination by a Papal commission, was condemned by Pope Clement XI. in 1713.

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A similar fate awaited a second appeal to Clement XI. in 1701.

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