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The Antipope

The Antipope charts Brentford's anti-heroes' (Jim Pooley and John Omally) drinking, work avoidance, drinking, womanising, and further drinking as they try to foil the eponymous antipope in his demonic attempt to establish a new Holy See.


The Brentford Trilogy

# The Antipope (1981) - Pooley and Omally take on the resurrected Pope Alexander VI the last Borgia pope.


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Antipope Felix II

As well as the Roman Martyrology, the Roman Missal identified the Saint Felix of 29 July with the antipope.

Louis I, Duke of Anjou

Joanna was killed in her prison in San Fele in 1382; Louis, with support of the Antipope, France, Bernabò Visconti of Milan and Amadeus VI of Savoy, and using the money he had been able to obtain during the regency, launched an expedition to regain the Kingdom of Naples from Charles.

Polyphony

Avignon, the seat of the antipopes, was a vigorous center of secular music-making, much of which influenced sacred polyphony.