Gregory XV

noun

1. Alessandro Ludovisi, 1554–1623, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1621–23.

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He was succeeded by Gregory XV, an elderly stopgap who himself died in 1623, when things seemed at last to be going better for Galileo.

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Two weeks after the letter was written, Gregory XV died.

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Just before Gregory XV died, Galileo received formal permission from Rome to publish a new book, The Assayer, which had grown out of his work on comets but ended up covering far more ground and stating the scientific case clearly—the famous quote above about the story of the Universe being ‘written in the language of mathematics’ is taken from this book.

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Propaganda was formally institutionalized in Rome in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, thanks to the success of Baroque art.

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Gregory XV decided that a special group of cardinals might also recover losses abroad if given supreme control over all foreign missions.

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