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

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.

From Project Gutenberg

The existing pope, Nicholas IV., chanced to be a Franciscan, so Tommaso was summoned before him, forced to confess, and was sent back to his provincial with orders to subject him to a punishment that would prevent a repetition of the sacrilege.

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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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