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Innocent VIII

noun

Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492). Synonym: Giovanni Battista Cibo.

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... became a first-rate authority in the processes against demons. His Malleus was most likely composed during the twenty years between this adventure and the important mission entrusted to Sprenger by Pope Innocent VIII., ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... 1489, Pope Innocent VIII.—moved with the enormous stories which reached his ear of the corruption of the houses of religion in England—granted a commission to the Archbishop of Canterbury to make inquiries whether these stories were true, and to proceed to correct and reform as might seem good to him. The regular clergy ...

— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... martyrdom of Vaudois pastors, some by fire, some by hanging, some in ways more revolting and excruciating, at Turin and other places. But the destruction of a few victims would not satisfy the malignant spirit of the papal antichrist, therefore the work of persecution must be organized on a larger scale. Innocent VIII. selected Albert de Capitaneis, Archdeacon of Cremona, as his agent for the ...

— The Vaudois of Piedmont - A Visit to their Valleys • John Napper Worsfold

Words linked to "Innocent VIII" : Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pontiff, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Giovanni Battista Cibo, Roman Catholic Pope, pope