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CLEMENT XII

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 487 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEMENT XII . (Lorenzo See also:Corsini), See also:pope from 1730 to 1740, succeeded See also:Benedict XIII. on the 12th of See also:July 1730, at the See also:age of seventy-eight. The rascally See also:Cardinal Coscia, who had deluded Benedict, was at once brought to See also:justice and forced to disgorge his dishonest gains. Politically the papacy had sunk to the level of pitiful helplessness, unable to resist the aggressions of the See also:Powers, who ignored or coerced it at will. Yet Clement entertained high hopes for Catholicism; he laboured for a See also:union with the See also:Greek See also:Church, and was ready to facilitate the return of the Protestants of See also:Saxony. He deserves well of posterity for his services to learning and See also:art; the restoration of the See also:Arch of See also:Constantine; the enrichment of the Capitoline museum with See also:antique See also:marbles and See also:inscriptions, and of the Vatican library with See also:oriental See also:manuscripts (see AssEMAN1); and the embellishment of the See also:city with many buildings. He died on the 6th of See also:February 1740, and was succeeded by Benedict XIV. See Guarnacci, Vitae et res gestae Pontiff. Rom. (See also:Rome, 1751) ; Sandini, Vitae Pontiff. Rom. (See also:Padua, 1739); Fabroni, De Vita et Reb.

Gest. Clementis XII. (Rome, 176o); See also:

Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans. See also:Austin), iii. 191 seq.; v. See also:Reumont, Gesch. der Stadt Rom, in. 2, 653 seq. (T. F.

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