Pius VI

American  

noun

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

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Pius VI British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

In 1802, Pius VII presided over the funeral of his predecessor, Pius VI, whose body returned to the Vatican after he died in 1799 in exile.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

Pius VI kept a dog, Diana, at the summer papal residence in Castel Gandolfo.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Mr. Panetta sat in the front row of the Pope Pius VI Audience Hall, where some 7,000 others had gathered for the pope’s weekly audience.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2013

For ages past, the interior corruption, and the power exercised at Rome by domestics and women of gallantry, has been notorious; but before the time of Pius VI.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

Adjoining this, is the very handsome Palazzo Braschi, the last result of papal nepotism in Rome,—built at the end of the last century by Morelli, for the Duke Braschi, nephew of Pius VI.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.