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BENTIVOGLIO, GIOVANNI (1443-1508)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENTIVOGLIO, GIOVANNI (1443-1508) , See also:tyrant of See also:Bologna, descended from a powerful See also:family which exercised See also:great See also:influence in Bologna during the 15th See also:century, was See also:born after the See also:murder of his See also:father, then See also:chief See also:magistrate of the See also:commune. In 1462 Giovanni contrived to make himself See also:master of the See also:city, although it was nominally a See also:fief of the See also:church under a papal See also:legate. He ruled with a stern sway for nearly See also:half a century, but the brilliance of his See also:court, his encouragement of the See also:fine arts and his decoration of the city with sumptuous edifices, to some extent compensated the Bolognese for the loss of their See also:liberty. Cesare See also:Borgia (q.v.) contemplated the subjugation of Bologna in r Soo, when he was crushing the various despots of Romagna, but Bentivoglio was saved for the moment by See also:French intervention. In 1502 he took See also:part in the See also:conspiracy against Cesare, but, when the latter obtained French assistance, he abandoned his See also:fellow-conspirators and helped Borgia to overcome them. During the brief pontificate of See also:Pius III., who succeeded See also:Alexander VI. in 1503, Bentivoglio enjoyed a See also:respite, but the new See also:pope, See also:Julius II., was determined to reduce all the former papal states to obedience. Having won See also:Louis XII. of See also:France to his See also:side, he led an See also:army against Bologna, excommunicated Bentivoglio and forced him to abandon the city (See also:November 1506). The deposed tyrant took See also:refuge with the French, whom he trusted more than the pope, and died at See also:Milan in 1508.

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