Innocent VIII

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noun

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

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Innocent VIII

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

John Baptist Cibo, elected to the Papacy in 1485, under the designation of Innocent VIII, was sincerely alarmed at the number of witches, and launched forth his terrible manifesto against them.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

What of the accusations of simony against Innocent VIII, which rest upon a much sounder basis than these against Alexander, and what of those against Sixtus IV?

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael

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.

Under Innocent VIII, a discreditable usage, which had already appeared among the Cardinals, attained its height.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob