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URBAN VII

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URBAN VII . (Giovanni Battista Castagna), successor of See also:Sixtus V., was See also:born on the 4th of See also:August 1521. He became See also:governor of See also:Bologna, See also:archbishop of See also:Rossano, and was See also:long See also:nuncio to See also:Spain. See also:Gregory XIII. made him a See also:cardinal, 1583; and in 1590 he was elected See also:pope by the See also:Spanish See also:faction, but died twelve days later, on the 27th of See also:September 1590, and was succeeded by Gregory XIV. See Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae summorum Pontiff. Rom. (See also:Rome, 1601—2) ; Cicarella, continuator of Platina, De vitis Pontiff. Rom. (both contemporary; the latter prolix and tedious); Arrigho, Vita Urbani VII. (Bologna, 1614); and See also:Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans., See also:Austin), ii. 227.

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