Nicholas V
Americannoun
noun
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They made frantic repairs to the walls as the bombardment continued and looked hopefully for the rumored relief fleets that the Venetians and Pope Nicholas V were preparing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Pope Nicholas V, founder of what would become the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, didn’t live to see the final product of his commission.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2016
When Pope Nicholas V offered to make him Archbishop of Florence, Fra Angelico. who believed that there was "less trouble and error in obeying others," declined.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pope Nicholas V commissioned Enoche of Ascoli to acquire old manuscripts in Germany.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
The teaching of the Schoolmen made its way into Italy, but had p 254little vogue; and with the Church, through such Popes as Nicholas V, on the side of the Renaissance, resistance almost disappeared.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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