Nicholas IV

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noun

1. Girolamo Masci, died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.

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Example Sentences

The Nativity figures that are believed to be the oldest in existence, below, were sculpted by Arnolfo di Cambio for Pope Nicholas IV in 1291.

From New York Times

It will be remembered that in 1290 this, with other French cantons, was included by Nicholas IV. in the inquisitorial province of Besançon, which was Dominican.

From Project Gutenberg

For a while this extraordinary privilege seems to have been observed, for, in 1289, Nicholas IV., when anathematizing heretics and stimulating the zeal of inquisitors throughout Genoa, Lombardy, Romagnola, Naples, and Sicily, pointedly omits Tuscany from his enumeration.

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At length, in 1288, Nicholas IV. lost patience with this persistent contumacy.

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This compromise was accepted by Nicholas IV.,

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