Nicholas V
Americannoun
noun
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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, when only a simple monk, ran deeply into debt through buying manuscripts or having them copied.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
Pope Nicholas V, Poggio, Gianozzo Manetti, Niccolo Niccoli, and other distinguished scholars, themselves wrote a beautiful hand, and desired and tolerated none other.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
Nicholas V had restored the bridge over the Tiber, and also begun a tower nearby, which Calixtus III completed.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand
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