Pope Alexander VI

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Pope Alexander Vi

scholarly journals Charles V and the Discovery of Canada

1917 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 143-164
Author(s):  
H. P. Biggar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Charles V ◽  
Pope Alexander Vi

To Canadians, and perhaps to English people as well, it will come as a surprise to learn that in the sixteenth century an Emperor of Germany laid claim not only to Canada, but also to the region now embraced within the borders of the United States. The basis of the claim was a bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
The Past ◽  
Support Points ◽  
Marsilio Ficino ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Scholastic Philosophy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pope Alexander Vi ◽  
Aristotelian Metaphysics ◽  
And Training

The Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (b. 1463–d. 1494) is best known today for his Oratio de hominis dignitate, a speech often touted as an emblematic expression of the Renaissance. Originally, however, the Oratio was intended to open a debate in Rome where Pico had hoped to dispute his Conclusiones nongentae, a work of nine hundred theses covering a vast array of philosophical, theological, and esoteric topics that Pico had published in late 1486. A papal prohibition by Innocent VIII, however, canceled the planned disputation, and Pico was excommunicated after he authored in 1487 his Apologia, a sharp defense of thirteen of the nine hundred theses that had been identified as doctrinally problematic by an ecclesiastical commission. Pico was only fully rehabilitated in 1493 by the new pope Alexander VI. Pico’s other extant works testify to his wide-ranging interests and training. In addition to studying ancient and scholastic philosophy, Pico learned Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, and he was one of the first to use Kabbalah to support points of Christian doctrine. He had a life-long interest in reconciling philosophers of the past, arguing that the main oppositions between Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics were simply verbal, and he intended to publish a work titled Concordia Platonis Aristotelisque. He had an early epistolary debate with Ermolao Barbaro on the relationship of philosophy and rhetoric, wrote on metaphysics in De ente et uno, engaged in biblical exegesis in the Heptaplus, and criticized astrology in his longest book, the unfinished Disputationes. Pico enjoyed the protection of Lorenzo de’ Medici and his intellectual contacts included Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Girolamo Savonarola. Much of Pico’s work was published posthumously in 1496 by his nephew and literary executor, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. Pico was introduced to an English audience in the early 16th century by Thomas More, who produced an abbreviated English rendering of Gianfrancesco’s biography of his uncle, along with translations of three letters and several short spiritual writings by Pico.

scholarly journals A CONTEMPORARY ORATION ON POPE ALEXANDER VI

1892 ◽  
Vol VII (XXVI) ◽  
pp. 311-314
Author(s):  
R. GARNETT
Keyword(s):  
Pope Alexander Vi

Pope Alexander VI.

1878 ◽  
Vol s5-X (239) ◽  
pp. 77-77
Author(s):  
W. D. P.
Keyword(s):  
Pope Alexander Vi

scholarly journals La Lucrècia Borja de ficció en el drama d’Hugo i els seus derivats

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Marc Gomar Calatayud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victor Hugo ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Gaetano Donizetti ◽  
The Real ◽  
Black Legend ◽  
The Many ◽  
Pope Alexander Vi

Resum: El drama Lucrèce Borgia de Victor Hugo confereix al personatge històric una sèrie d’atributs en sintonia amb el gust sensacionalista de l’època: en ser dona, poderosa, bella i formada. Lucrècia Borja és el millor exemple d’allò que Kristeva anomena «l’abjecte» en les Pouvoirs de l’horreur (1980). Una imatge de femme fatale lligada al verí o l’incest que es popularitzarà gràcies a les nombroses obres derivades del drama: de l’òpera de Donizetti als romanços populars de manera que les característiques del personatge de ficció s’imposaran a l’històric en l’imaginari col·lectiu. Lucrècia Borja, que fins aleshores havia estat considerada un instrument al servei de les polítiques familiars, entrarà a formar part per «mèrits» propis del triangle del mal junt amb l germà, Cèsar Borja, i son pare, el papa Alexandre VI. Paraules clau: Lucrècia Borja, Victor Hugo, Gaetano Donizetti, llegenda negra, literatura de cordell, paròdia, segle XIX, Francesc Godó, abjecte Abstract: The Victor Hugo’s drama Lucrezia Borgia gives to the historical character some attributes in line with the sensationalist preferences of that time: being a female, powerful, beautiful and educated. Lucrezia Borgia is the best example of what Kristeva names «the abject» in Pouvoirs de l’horreur (1980). The character is a femme fatale image linked to poison or incest and it was popularized thanks to the many works resulting from this drama. So that, the features of the fictional character prevailed to the real historical character in the popular beliefs, this happened in Donizetti's opera, but also in the chapbooks of that time. Lucrezia Borgia had previously been considered an instrument in the service for family policies, but she became part of an evil triangle, thanks to her own attitude, along with her brother, Cesare Borgia, and her father, the pope Alexander VI. Keywords: Lucrezia Borgia, Victor Hugo, Gaetano Donizetti, black legend, chapbook, parody, nineteenth century, Francesc Xavier Godó, abject

Building a Catholic Empire

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-190
Author(s):  
R. Alan Covey
Keyword(s):  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Charles V ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Peruvian Coast ◽  
Pope Alexander Vi ◽  
Medieval Model ◽  
New Settlements

This chapter begins with the Castilian conquest and colonization of the Canary Islands, which deployed a medieval model that had been carried over to the Americas by Columbus. When the Aragonese pope Alexander VI granted half the globe for Spanish missionary work and imperial expansion, Isabella and Ferdinand lacked the policies, institutions, and laws to rule over native peoples who did not live like European Catholics. They also struggled to maintain control over their Spanish colonists, who often abandoned the new settlements to explore, plunder, and raid for slaves in other places. The chapter follows one of these wayward colonists, Francisco Pizarro, from Hispaniola to Panama and on to the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America. As Charles V attempted to establish law and order in his American colonies—and to face the challenges of the Protestant Reformation—he granted Pizarro permission to colonize Peru, a rich, civilized realm that had been contacted during a rare moment of success in the conquistador’s otherwise disastrous expeditions on the Peruvian coast.

Pope Alexander VI

1878 ◽  
Vol s5-IX (229) ◽  
pp. 387-387
Author(s):  
H. A. W.
Keyword(s):  
Pope Alexander Vi

Jesuit Missions in Baja California

1967 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-422
Author(s):  
Francis J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Jesuit Missions ◽  
Pope Alexander Vi ◽  
In Virtue Of

Whatever history may record about his personal life, there is no denying that Pope Alexander VI was among the most efficient and far-sighted of the Church’s long list of vicars. Perhaps nowhere is this fact more obvious than in the pontiff’s concern and zeal for the missions. In a decree addressed to Ferdinand and Isabella, issued at Rome on May 4, 1493, the pope stated, in part: We order you in virtue of holy obedience (for as you promise, so we do not doubt you will do, in your noble dedication and royal magnanimity) that you dispatch to the designated mainlands and islands virtuous and God-fearing men endowed with training, experience, and skill, to instruct the natives and inhabitants before mentioned and to imbue them with the same Christian faith and sound morals, using all speed in the premises.With this and subsequent papal mandates, the Spanish monarchs inaugurated the Christianization and colonization of the New World.

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