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Urban VIII

noun
1.
Italian pope from 1623 to 1644 who sanctioned the condemnation of Galileo but later freed him (1568-1644).  Synonym: Maffeo Barberini.






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"Urban viii" Quotes from Famous Books



... plant issued the most strenous laws[47] and affixed penalties of the severest kind, of these may be mentioned the King of Persia, Amuroth IV. of Turkey, the Emperor Jehan-Gee and Popes Urban VIII. and Innocent XII., the last of whom showed his dislike to many other customs ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings

... in 1856 that the Storys located themselves in Palazzo Barberini, which Bernini designed and which was built "out of the quarry of the Coliseum" by Urban VIII. It is one of the wonderful old palaces of Rome,—this mass of Barberini courts, gardens, terraces, and vast apartments, with the interminable winding stairs, where on one landing Thorwaldsen's lion lies before the great doors ...
— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting

... influential Florentine family, several of the members of which were cardinals, and one made pope in 1623 under the name Urban VIII. ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood



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