Pius VI

noun

1. Giovanni Angelo, or Giannangelo, Braschi, 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1775–99.

Pius VI

noun

1. Pius VI17171799MItalianRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: pope original name Giovanni Angelico Braschi . 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1775–99). He opposed French attempts to limit papal authority and denounced (1791) the French Revolution: he died a prisoner of the French in the Revolutionary Wars

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The trouble was, he alienated Pope Pius VI and Pius VII—the latter he actually arrested.

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Only scanty relics of antiquity have been found here; a post station was placed here by Pius VI.

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Pius VI had died a prisoner on French soil, and had been buried without honor.

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Among those who were commissioned to examine it, was a simple prelate, who afterwards became Pius VI.

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Pius VI., in fact, did not wish Consalvi to wear out his energies in the routine of administrative bureaucracy.

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Subsequently he plundered the states and possessions of the pope; and when Pius VI.

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