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6 unusual facts about Pope Clement VIII


Albert VII, Archduke of Austria

Pope Clement VIII celebrated the union by procuration on 15 November at Ferrara, while the actual marriage took place in Valencia on 18 April 1599.

Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio

The legitimacy of the succession was recognized by the Emperor Rudolph II but not by Pope Clement VIII: thus, as Ferrara was nominally a Papal fief, the city was returned to the Papal States, despite the attempts of the young duke, who sought help from the Major Powers to no avail.

Anastasius Germonius

As archdeacon at Turin he was a member of the commission appointed by Pope Clement VIII to edit the Liber Septimus decretalium (later known as the Constitutiones Clementinae); and he also wrote Paratitla on the five books of the Decretals of Gregory IX.

Caspar Schoppe

Schoppe obtained the favour of Pope Clement VIII, and distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants.

Cerasi Chapel

The chapel was purchased in July 1600 by Monsignor Tiberio Cerasi, Consistorial Advocate and Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII.

Lagrime di San Pietro

He dedicated it to Pope Clement VIII on May 24, 1594, just three weeks before his death.


1593 in music

Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus composed The Tears of Saint Peter (1593–1594), dedicated to Pope Clement VIII: it was the final work of Lassus and considered, by some, the absolute summit of the 16th-century Italian madrigal.

Anna Guarini

At any rate, in 1598 the period of musical experimentation at the Ferrara court ended with the takeover of the town by the Papal States under Pope Clement VIII.

Antoni Clarassó i Terès

On August 13 of 1592, Pope Clement VIII approved a bull that decreed the secularization of the regular canons of the Order of Saint Augustine from all monasteries and priories in Catalonia, Roussillon and Cerdanya.

Filippo Spinola

He participated in the first papal conclave of 1590 that elected Pope Urban VII; the second papal conclave of 1590 that elected Pope Gregory XIV; the papal conclave of 1591 that elected Pope Innocent IX; and the papal conclave of 1592 that elected Pope Clement VIII.

Gregório Nunes Coronel

Pope Clement VIII established the Congregatio de Auxiliis to decide the points at issue, and Coronel was appointed by the pope to the position of secretary.

Isabella Cervoni

This is evident in her canzoni dedicated to Henry IV of France and Pope Clement VIII in 1597, both of which celebrated the French king's conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism.

L'Escalade

Pope Clement VIII offered encouragement; in 1602 he appointed as Catholic bishop of Geneva Francis de Sales, an effective preacher who had recently been successful in re-Catholicizing the Chablais district of Savoy on the south side of Lake Geneva.

Theophilus de Garencières

While considering himself a Catholic, Garencières was a harsh critic of Pope Clement VIII, writing the endword to a work of 1670 entitled The famous conclave: wherein Clement VIII was elected Pope, with the intrigues and cunning devices of that ecclesiastical assembly: faithfully translated out of an Italian manuscript found in one of the cardinals studies after his death.


see also

Caeca

Caeca et Obdurata, a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement VIII in 1593, which expelled the Jews from the Papal States