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Pope Clement XII

Pope Clement XII

1652 CE–1740 CE · Modern · Florence

Lorenzo Corsini, from a distinguished Florentine family, was elected at seventy-eight and soon went blind, governing largely from his bed while aides administered affairs. Despite frailty he was an energetic patron of Rome: he commissioned the Trevi Fountain's grand facade, the Corsini Chapel at the Lateran, and acquired antiquities for the new Capitoline Museum. In 1738 he issued In eminenti, the first papal condemnation of Freemasonry, citing its secrecy and oaths. He prosecuted the corrupt Cardinal Coscia and worked to repair finances strained under Benedict XIII. Blind and aged, he nonetheless left an enduring artistic and cultural imprint on the city.

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Florence, the capital of Tuscany in central Italy. A leading city of the Italian Renaissance, it hosted the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439) that briefly reunited the Latin and Greek churches, was the city of the friar Savonarola, and produced several Medici popes.

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