Cybo Family - Pope Innocent VIII, Innocenzo Cybo, Franceschetto Cybo, Maddalena de' Medici (Paperback)

Chapters: Pope Innocent Viii, Innocenzo Cybo, Franceschetto Cybo, Maddalena De' Medici. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pope Innocent VIII (1432 July 25, 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was Pope from 1484 until his death. Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo) was born at Genoa of Greek extraction, the son of Arano Cybo or Cibo (c. 1375-c. 1455) who under Pope Calixtus III (145558) had been a senator at Rome, and wife Teodorina de Mari (c. 1380-), and paternal grandson of Maurizio Cybo or Cibo and wife Saeacina Marocelli. His early years were spent at the Neapolitan court, and subsequently he went to Padua and Rome for his education. In Rome he became a priest in the retinue of cardinal Calandnini, half-brother to Pope Nicholas V (144755); the influence of his friends procured for him, from Pope Paul II (146471) the bishopric of Savona, and in 1473, with the support of Giuliano Della Rovere, later Pope Julius II, he was made cardinal by Pope Sixtus IV (147184), whom he succeeded on August 29, 1484 as Pope Innocent VIII. The conclave was riven with faction, while gangs rioted in the streets. Cardinal Giuliano did not have sufficient votes at the conclave to be elected, so he turned his energies towards the election of Cybo, whom he was confident that he could control. Shortly after his coronation Innocent VIII addressed a fruitless summons to Christendom to unite in a crusade against the infidels; the amount of his own zeal may in some degree be estimated from the fact that in 1489, in consideration of a yearly stipend of 40,000 ducats and a gift of the Holy Lance, he consented to favor Bayazid II (14811512) by detaining the Sultan's fugitive brother Cem in close confinement in the Vatican. During what is known as the Little Ice Age, Inn...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24643