Pope Leo X (Italian: Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the...

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[failed verification] Leo Africanus left Rome and spent the next three or four years traveling in Italy. The death of his patron Leo X in 1521, and suspicions...

as a statesman. He had served with distinction as chief advisor to Pope Leo X (1513–1521, his cousin), Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523), and commendably as...

cadet branch of the House of Medici. He was also the great-nephew of Pope Leo X. Ottaviano died early in his son’s life, and thereafter Alessandro was home...

the family continued for decades including the Medici papacies of Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII. Despite pauses and turbulence in the relationship...

In 1499, he served as ambassador from King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X, leading a luxurious embassy presenting in Rome the new conquests of Portugal...

popes of the Catholic Church—Pope Leo X (1513–1521), Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), Pope Pius IV (1559–1565) and Pope Leo XI (1605)—and two queens of France—Catherine...

1474 Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (1475–1521), ascended to the papacy as Leo X in 1513 Luisa de' Medici (1477–1488), also called Luigia, was betrothed...

indulgences in Ninety-five Theses, which he authored in 1517. In 1520, Pope Leo X demanded that Luther renounce all of his writings, and when Luther refused...

Julius' death, Raphael changed the painting to resemble the new pope, Leo X. Leo X appears both as cardinal and as pope. The images of Saint Peter and Saint...

alongside his younger brother Giovanni, who would go on to become Pope Leo X, and his cousin Giulio, who would later become Pope Clement VII.: 7  Piero...

The Portrait of Pope Leo X with two Cardinals is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, executed c. 1518-1520. It is housed in the...

control of Florence until 1494. Giovanni de' Medici, who later became Pope Leo X, reconquered the republic in 1512. Florence repudiated Medici authority...

In March 1513, Lorenzo de' Medici's son Giovanni assumed the papacy (as Leo X); Leonardo went to Rome that September, where he was received by the pope's...

Inquisitor of the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. Pope Leo X made him a cardinal in 1517 and after Leo's death he was elected pope in 1522 as a compromise...

Borgo"). After the death of Julius in 1513, with two rooms frescoed, Pope Leo X continued the program. Following Raphael's death in 1520, his assistants...

republican system of government and thus, in 1516, convinced his uncle, Pope Leo X to make him Duke of Urbino at the age of 24. So began a conflict with the...

historical—political and cultural—figures of his time, including Popes Leo X, Adrian VI, and Clement VII; Ottoman emperors Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent;...

Velletri. In June 1517, Cardinal Petrucci and others conspired against Pope Leo X (Giovanni dei Medici). Cardinal Riario refused to participate in the plot...

humanist education by Pierio Valeriano Bolzani, under the supervision of Pope Leo X and Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici. During those years, a number of unexpected...

church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy. The highest political...

and serving valiantly in military combat under his third cousins, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII, in the War of Urbino and the War of the League of...

(847–855) Pope Leo V (903) Pope Leo VI (928) Pope Leo VII (936–939) Pope Leo VIII (964–965) Pope Leo IX (1049–1054) Pope Leo X (1513–1521) Pope Leo XI (1605)...

Alexander VI (1492–1503) Pope Pius III (1503) Pope Julius II (1503–1513) Pope Leo X (1513–1521) Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523) Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) Pope...

Luther claimed that his positions on indulgences accorded with those of Pope Leo X, the Theses challenge a 14th-century papal bull stating that the pope could...

San Pietro in Vincoli, are lasting witnesses of his great love of art. Leo X was a lover and patron of the arts and sciences, and probably did more than...

his brothers Piero and Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, who became Pope Leo X; as well as his cousin Giulio de' Medici, who became Pope Clement VII. His...

order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a Papal bull of Pope Leo X. In answer to questioning, he defended these views and refused to recant...

Borgia, in the role of Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, the future Pope Leo X. In 2012, he played the character Tyr Seward in the BBC production of Merlin...