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Nicholas V

noun

  1. Thomas Parentucelli, 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.


Nicholas V

noun

  1. Nicholas V13971455MItalianRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: pope original name Tommaso Parentucelli. 1397–1455, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1447–55). He helped to found the Vatican Library
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Nicholas V was not a man of the world, he was a scholar, full of the enthusiasm of his day.

It was built as the private chapel of Nicholas V., and is the oldest decorated portion of the Vatican.

Nicholas V. entered into the chapel, with a dignity tempered by an ineffable tenderness.

Nicholas V. first permitted them to be read without restriction in the universities.

Nicholas V, as we have seen, hoped to maintain the Papacy at the head of Christendom by means of the new intellectual forces.

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