entourage from the accusations made by Pope
Sixtus IV. In June, Sixtus
However, Pope
Sixtus IV called for a crusade, and a coalition of Italian states, reinforced by an army from Hungary, was able to drive the Turkish invader out.
One of those looming adversaries is the Vatican, ruled by the corrupt Pope
Sixtus IV (James Faulkner), whose bloodthirsty henchmen are tasked with controlling knowledge and silencing perceived enemies.
Da Vinci seeks this MacGuffin along with Count Girolamo Riario (Blake Ritson), operating on behalf of the Holy Roman Church and his lascivious uncle, Pope
Sixtus IV (James Faulkner).
The Renaissance jewel takes its name from pope
Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1477 and 1480.
But things go awry when they find themselves caught up in a secret plot other than the Italian Pope
Sixtus IV to murder Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano.
Recalling the story of a she-wolf which fed Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome, and his twin brother, Remus, after they had been thrown in a basket into the Tiber River, the so called "Lupa Capitolina" (Capitoline she-wolf) was donated to the museum in 1471 by Pope
Sixtus IV.
Among the topics are founding an ideal city in Filarete's Libro Architettonico, Pope
Sixtus IV and the foundation of Ponte Sisto in 1473, building a sense of belonging with the foundation of Valletta in Malta, constructing a counter-reformational architecture in the southern Netherlands, and the foundation of the Paris Observatory on 21 June in 1667.
So successful was Rodrigo in this position that the three following Popes, Paul II,
Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII, all Italians, maintained him in this sensitive post throughout their papacies, until Rodrigo was himself elected Pope in 1492, in all, a total of 37 years.
The painting by Melozzo da Forli of Pope
Sixtus IV appointing the humanist Bartolomeo Platina prefect of the Vatican Library is one of the iconic masterworks of the Renaissance in Rome.
His influential clients included Pope
Sixtus IV, Cardinals Giovanni d'Aragona and Francesco Gonzaga, Matthias Corvinus and Lorenzo de' Medici.
The timing of these efforts to found a center Renaissance and Humanist learning could not be more revealing: Popes Nicholas V (1447-55)and
Sixtus IV (1471-84) and the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople/ Istanbul, Sultan Mehmet II (1432-81) vied for the mantle of classical antiquity, employing Byzantine scholars as translators and guides to Greek texts.
Historians have long assumed that Pope
Sixtus IV supported the Pazzi plotAueven in the opera, the brothers chat about the PopeAAEs enmity.
Alberti, along with della Francesca, introduced Pacioli to the ecclesiastical hierarchy, including Francesco della Rovere, the newly elected Pope
Sixtus IV, and his 28-year-old nephew Giuliano della Rovere, whom he had appointed a cardinal.
