Popes and their associates
Antonio Barberini (1607–1671) – one of the three “musketeers” of Urban VIII
Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphilj (1622–1666) – an arthritis-filled expiation of the papal nephew
Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549–1609) – a lover of antiquity, who avoided papal disfavor
Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) – papal nepot, admirer of books and art, defender of Galileo
Francesco Maria del Monte (1549–1626) – a cardinal full of passion for alchemy, music and painting
Cardinal Bessarion (1403?–1473) – the one who wanted to save Constantinople
Cardinal Flavio Chigi (1631–1693) – a true dandy and a Roman trendsetter
Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte (1532–1577) – the pope’s favorite with criminal inclinations
Cardinal Paolo Camillo Sfondrati (1560–1618) – chasing sainthood
Charles Borromeo (1538–1584) – an extraordinary nepot, critic and saint of the Church
Ludovico Ludovisi (1595–1632) – lover of Antiquity and an extremely bright papal nepot
Maria Clementina Sobieska (1701–1735) between reality and a dream
Olimpia Maidalchini (1591–1657) – a very entrepreneurial papal sister-in-law
Pope Alexander I (? – 116?) – a holy shepherd of the holy water
Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503) – an ambitious strategist with a great heart for women
Pope Alexander VII (1599–1667) – a great constructor with a lead coffin in his bedroom
Pope Alexander VIII (1610–1691), Pietro Vito Ottoboni – a profligate enthusiast of old books
Pope Boniface VIII (1235?–1303), Benedetto Caetani – pope from the eighth circle of hell
Pope Celestine I (?–432) – philosopher striving for the divinity of the mother of Jesus
Pope Damasus I (approx. 305–384) – the one who changed the face of the Roman Church forever
Pope Felix III (Felix II) (?–492) – a saintly, uncompromising and strict pope
Pope Formosus (?816–896) – meaning, how to posthumously become a martyr
Pope Gelasius I (?–496) – meaning Christ’s first Vicar on Earth
Pope Gregory I the Great (approx. 540–604) – a monk by conviction, who changed the face of the Church for centuries
Pope Gregory XIII (1502–1585) – a tireless counter-reformer and an efficient reformer of the calendar
Pope Gregory XIV (1535–1591) – pious, modest, and lacking in will
Pope Gregory XV (1554–1623) – a sickly and phlegmatic protector of the Jesuits
Pope Hilarius (?–468) – a generous donor and a defender of orthodoxy
Pope Hippolytus (approx. 170–235) – an overzealous saintly rigorist
Pope Honorius I (?–638), a fallible pontifex maximus, in addition to being a heretic
Pope Honorius III (1150–1227) – a significant Church strategist and an uncompromising ruler
Pope Innocent I (? – 417) – a charismatic leader of the Church in times of chaos and uncertainty
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) – the first Vicar of Christ on Earth
Pope Innocent VIII (1432–1492) – sickly, yet resourceful protector of his own children
Pope Innocent XI (1611–1689) – a strict reformer, moralist and subduer of art
Pope Innocent XII (1615–1700) – an exemplary shepherd and a protector of castrates
Pope John XII (?937–964) – meaning the one who was mortally wounded by the devil in the bed of a married woman
Pope Julius II (1443–1513) – a valiant ruler, courageous politician and a great protector of art
Pope Julius III (1487–1555) – a dream about the power of ...a family
Pope Callixtus III (1378–1458) – a disliked aesthetic from the Pyrenean Peninsula
Pope Clement IX (1600–1669) – a librettist and humanist devoted to God
Pope Clement VII (1478–1534) – a powerless politician and a firm protector of artists
Pope Clement VIII (1536–1605) – an enemy of nudity, a pious and kind despot
Pope Clement X (1590–1676) – a humble pope with an ambitious nepot
Pope Leo I the Great (400?–461) – defender of Rome and the man behind the power of the Church
Pope Leo X (1475–1521) – a generous patron of art and an enthusiast of parties and feasts
Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455) – the one, who made art into a foundation of faith
Pope Paschal I (?–824) – a collector of relics and a self-admirer
Pope Paul II (1417–1471) – an enthusiast of carnival parties
Pope Paul III (1468–1549) – an uncompromising patron of artists and his own family
Pope Paul V (1552–1621) – a generous funder and a foresighted city manager
Pope Pelagius II (?–590) – a protector of the needy and of Gregory the Great
Pope Pius II (1405–1464) – a complete humanist on St. Peter’s throne
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) – a silent pontifex maximus
Pope Sergius III (approx. 870–911) – meaning „ the slave of every vice”
Pope Stephen VI (? – 897) – a story of the battle between the pope and a cadaver
Pope Sixtus III (390–440) – a great constructor of Christian Rome
Pope Sixtus IV (1414–1484) – a man of Renaissance and the creator of a new Rome
Pope Sixtus V (1521–1590) – the bane of bandits and womanizers
Pope Sylvester (? -335) – a marginal figure, yet a saint
Pope Symmachus (? – 514) – a controversial but unrelenting shepherd
Pope Simplicius (? – 483) – a bishop of Rome on the border of two eras
Pope Theodore I (?–649) – a pope who brought the dead to Rome
Pope Urban I (? – 230) – the beginning of the historical policy of the Church
Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644) – pontifex maximus of the Baroque art
Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi) (1421–1481) – humanist, rebel, courtier
Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1577–1633) – cardinal and papal nepot with truly earthly passions
Giovanni Baglioni’s Heavenly Love and Earthly Love – a virtue in the struggle against sin
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