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CLEMENT VIII

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT VIII . (Ippolito Aldobrandini), See also:pope from 1592 to 1605, was See also:born at See also:Fano,'in 1,535. He became a jurist and filled several important offices. In 1585 he was made a See also:cardinal, and subsequently discharged a delicate See also:mission to See also:Poland with skill. His moderation and experience commended him to his See also:fellow cardinals, and on the 3oth of See also:January 1592 he was elected pope, to succeed See also:Innocent IX. While not hostile to See also:Philip II., Clement desired to emancipate the papacy from undue See also:Spanish See also:influence, and to that end cultivated closer, relations with See also:France. In 1595 he granted See also:absolution to See also:Henry IV., and so removed the last objection to the See also:acknowledgment of his See also:legitimacy. The See also:peace of Vervins (1598), which marked the end of Philip's opposition to Henry, was mainly the See also:work of the pope. Clement also entertained hopes of recovering See also:England. He corresponded with See also:James I. and with his See also:queen, See also:Anne of See also:Denmark, a convert to Catholicism. But James was only See also:half in See also:earnest, and, besides, dared not See also:risk a See also:breach with his subjects. Upon the failure of the See also:line of See also:Este, Clement claimed the reversion of See also:Ferrara and reincorporated it into the States of the See also:Church (1598).

He remonstrated against the exclusion of the See also:

Jesuits from France, and obtained their readmission. But in their doctrinal controversy with the See also:Dominicans (see See also:MOLINA, LUIS) he refrained from a decision, being unwilling to offend either party. Under Clement the publication of the revised edition of the See also:Vulgate, begun by See also:Sixtus V., was finished; the See also:Breviary, See also:Missal and Pontifical received certain corrections; the See also:Index was See also:expanded; the Vatican library enlarged; and the Collegium Clementinum founded. Clement was an unblushing nepotist; three of his nephews he made cardinals, and to one of them gradually surrendered the See also:control of affairs. But on the other See also:hand among those whom he promoted to the cardinalate were such men as See also:Baronius, See also:Bellarmine and See also:Toledo. During this pontificate occurred the burning of See also:Giordano See also:Bruno for See also:heresy; and the tragedy of the See also:Cenci (see the respective articles). Clement died on the 5th of See also:March 1605, and was succeeded by See also:Leo XI. See the contemporary See also:life by Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae summorune Pontiff. Rom. (See also:Rome, 1601-1602) ; Francolini, Ippolito Aldobrandini, eke fu Clemente VIII. (See also:Perugia, 1867); See also:Ranke's, excellent See also:sketch, Popes (Eng. trans. See also:Austin), ii.

234 seq. ; v. See also:

Reumont, Gesch. der Stadt Rom, iii. 2, 599 seq. ; See also:Breech, Gesch. See also:des Kirchenstaates (1880), i. 301 seq. (T. F.

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