Innocent VIII

Youth and career

Wire of Arano Cybo and a patrician gênoise, it passes her youth to the court of Naples. It enters the orders then and receives évêché of Soaps hands of Paul II in 1467. Thanks to the protection of the cardinal Della future Rovere Jules II, it enters to the Roman Curie. In 1473, it is high with the dignity of cardinal. With died of Sixth IV, it is elected pope thanks to the operations of the cardinal Della Rovere.

Reign

Italian businesses

In Italy, it calls upon Florence, directed by Laurent de Médicis, to obtain finances. In thanks, Marie her illegitimate son Franceschetto with the girl of Laurent, Madaleno, which makes murmur its contemporaries. It raises with the dignity of cardinal the son of Laurent, Giovanni, old only 13 years - the future Leon X.

It carries out the war against Ferdinand I {{er}} of Naples, which had refused on several occasions to pay the tribute of nomination to the pope. A first campaign shows a peace mitigated in 1486, which does not alleviate the hostility between the two monarchs. In 1489, Innocent VIII excommunicates its adversary and asks for the intervention of Charles VIII of France, officially promising the to him Royaume of Naples. The conflict ends only in 1492.

Foreign affairs

Against the Turks, it tries like its predecessors to launch a Croisade, in vain. Innocent VIII finish, even by tying contacts with the Sultan Bayezid II, which gives the Holy Lance to him, supposed to have transpierced Jesus-Christ at the time of her passion. He recognizes Henri VII as legitimate monarch with leaving the Guerre of the Two-Pinks. He grants the title of “catholic kings” to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabelle de Castille.

Religious affairs

In the religious field, it publishes the bubble Summis desiderantes affectibus (December 5th 1484), authorizing the Inquisition to be acted as regards Sorcellerie. More precisely, it authorizes Henri Institoris and Jacques Sprenger to inform the lawsuit of two witches supposed in Germany. On their return, both Dominicain S publish the famous Malleus Maleficarum ( the Hammer of the witches ).

It approves the very hard repression carried out by the Spanish Enquiry against the Marranes, Juifs converted and suspected of continuing to practice their original religion. He also condemns in block the theses of Pic of Mirandole.

Patronage

It restores several Roman churches. It makes build a palate for the Roman Curie, which does not exist today any more, as well as the palate of the View-point. It makes work Antonio Pollaiolo, the Pinturrichio, Andrea Mantegna or the Pérugin.

Its body rests in the Basilique Saint-Pierre.

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