Paul III
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Reformation, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Catholic Church, Catholics, Popes, Papacy, Cardinals
- Curriculum: Italian History, Renaissance History
Article abstract: Pope Paul III was the last of the Renaissance popes, aristocratic, educated in the classics, with the concerns of his family often paramount. Yet he was also the first pope of the Catholic or Counter-Reformation, and it was he who summoned the Council of Trent, whose decisions governed the Church in subsequent centuries.
Early Life
Alessandro Farnese was born in 1468 into an old aristocratic family whose lands in central Italy were located between Rome and Florence. Generally supportive of the Papacy in its struggles with the Holy Roman...
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