Clement XI

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noun

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

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"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 ● Apr. 19, 2015

In 1713, when it threatened the papal herds, Pope Clement XI asked his personal physician, Dr. Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to stop it.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2011

Clement XI declared a Holy Year in 1702 for the specific purpose of dampening festive spirits and any inclination to noise.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2010

But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will, in due Time and Place, give you a Narrative of the Ceremonies of the Holy Week, which, tho’ I was present at once before, during the Pontificate of Clement XI.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II 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