Gregory XIII

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noun

1. Ugo Buoncompagni, 1502–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1572–85, educator and innovator of the modern calendar.

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Gregory XIII British  

noun

1. 1502–85, pope (1572–85). He promoted the Counter-Reformation and founded seminaries. His reformed (Gregorian) calendar was issued in 1582

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Gregory XIII

The legal battle began after the death in 2018 of Prince Nicolo Ludovisi Boncompagni, a descendant of Pope Gregory XIII, who was head of the family which has owned Villa Aurora for generations.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2023

On the reform of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIII.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Pope Gregory XIII, a contemporary of Galileo, felt it necessary to institute further calendar reform.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Under the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 and named for Pope Gregory XIII, one day is dropped every 100 years.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2016

What Julius Caesar obtained from the Alexandrian Sosigenes, he greatly improved and gave to the Empire, as the calendar which, with the exception of the slight change made by Gregory XIII, we still use.

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm