Pope Leo X
1475 CE–1521 CE · Florence
Born Giovanni de' Medici, second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, he was made a cardinal as a teenager and steeped in Florentine humanism. As Leo X he presided over a brilliant, lavish Roman court, patronizing Raphael and countless scholars, but his vast spending—partly to finance St. Peter's—drove the sale of indulgences. This was the spark for Martin Luther's 1517 protest; Leo's bull Exsurge Domine (1520) and Luther's subsequent excommunication failed to contain the Reformation. Often faulted for underestimating the crisis, he is remembered for cultural splendor and political maneuvering even as Western Christendom began to fracture during his reign.
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About Florence
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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Pope Alexander VI, Pope Pius III, Pope Julius II, Girolamo Savonarola, Pope Paul III, Pope Paul IV, Pope Clement VII, Martin Luther, Pope Julius III
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Pope Leo X’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Christian world
- Pope Sixtus IV· 1414 CE–1484 CE
- Pope Innocent VIII· 1432 CE–1492 CE
- Pope Adrian VI· 1459 CE–1523 CE
- Desiderius Erasmus· 1466 CE–1536 CE
- Huldrych Zwingli· 1484 CE–1531 CE
- Bartolomé de las Casas· 1484 CE–1566 CE
- Thomas Müntzer· 1489 CE–1525 CE
- Thomas Cranmer· 1489 CE–1556 CE
- Martin Bucer· 1491 CE–1551 CE
- Ignatius of Loyola· 1491 CE–1556 CE
- William Tyndale· 1494 CE–1536 CE
- Menno Simons· 1496 CE–1561 CE
- Philip Melanchthon· 1497 CE–1560 CE
- Conrad Grebel· 1498 CE–1526 CE
- Pope Pius IV· 1499 CE–1565 CE
- Pope Marcellus II· 1501 CE–1555 CE
- Pope Gregory XIII· 1502 CE–1585 CE
- Pope St. Pius V· 1504 CE–1572 CE
- Heinrich Bullinger· 1504 CE–1575 CE
- Francis Xavier· 1506 CE–1552 CE
- John Calvin· 1509 CE–1564 CE
- John Knox· 1514 CE–1572 CE
- Teresa of Ávila· 1515 CE–1582 CE
- Pope Innocent IX· 1519 CE–1591 CE
Luminaries & Explorers world
Jewish world
Scientists
Buddhist world
Rulers world
- Cuitláhuac· 1476 CE–1520 CE
- Atahualpa· –1533 CE
- Krishnadevaraya· 1471 CE–1529 CE
- Selim I· 1470 CE–1520 CE
- Tangáxoan II (Tzintzicha Tangaxoan)· –1530 CE
- Cacamatzin· 1483 CE–1520 CE
- Cosijoeza· –1529 CE
- Askia Muhammad I· –1538 CE
- Huayna Capac· –1527 CE
- Ibrahim Lodi· –1526 CE
- Shah Ismail I· 1487 CE–1524 CE
- Vasili III· 1479 CE–1533 CE
- Babur· 1483 CE–1530 CE
- Afonso I of Kongo· –1543 CE
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