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Innocent VIII

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noun

  1. Giovanni Battista Cibò, 1432–92, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1484–92.


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According to Dr. Erwin Muermann of the Bonn Cat Protection Initiative, the present epidemic of cattiness may have its roots in a 15th century bull of Pope Innocent VIII.

From Time Magazine Archive

Giovanni, the second, had already received a cardinal's hat from his kinsman, Innocent VIII.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds

Onofrio Panvinio tells this story of Paul III.’s imprisonment and escape, but places it in the Papacy of Innocent VIII.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds

Leger vouches for this fact; can any terms then be sufficiently severe for the cruelty of this monster Innocent VIII.

From L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by al.

Nevertheless, in that very year, 1487, George Brann was appointed to this see by Pope Innocent VIII.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865 by Society of Clergymen

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