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Title: History of the Christian church
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
Subjects: Church history Reformation
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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carried in a litter,on account of an ulcer for which an operation was performedduring the meeting of the conclave. Giovanni, who belongedto the younger party, had won many friends by his affablemanners and made no enemies, and his election seems to havebeen secured without any special effort on his part. The great-grandson of the banker, Cosimo, chose the name of Leo X.He was consecrated to the priesthood March 17,1513, and tothe episcopate March 19. The election was received by theRomans with every sign of popular approval. On the festivi-ties of the coronation 100,000 ducats, or perhaps as much as150,000 ducats, were expended, a sum which the frugality ofJulius had stored up. The procession was participated in by 250 abbots, bishopsand archbishops. Alfonso of Este, whom Julius 11. had ex-communicated, led the popes white horse, the same one hehad ridden the year before at Ravenna. On the houses and iThe famous letter is given by Roscoe, Bohns ed., pp. 285-288, andVaughan, p. 23 sqq.
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Pope Leo X § 56. LEO X. 1613-1521. 481 on the arches, spanning the streets, might be seen side by sidestatues of Cosmas and Damian, the patrons of the Mediceanhouse, and of the Olympian gods and nymphs. On one archat the Piazza di Parione were depicted Perseus, Apollo, Mosesand Mercury, sacred and mythological characters conjoined,as Alexander Severus joined the busts of Abraham and Or-pheus in his palace in the third century. A bishop, afterwardsCardinal Andrea della Valle, placed on his arch none but an-cient divinities, Apollo, Bacchus, Mercury, Hercules and Venus,together with fauns and Ganymede. Antonio of San Marino,the silversmith, decorated his house with a marble statue ofVenus, under which were inscribed the words — Mars ruled; then Pallas, but Venus will rule forever. ^ As a ruler, Leo had none of the daring and strength of hispredecessor. He pursued a policy of opportunism and stoopedto the practice of duplicity with his allies as well as with hisenemies. On all occasio

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