Glimpses of Italian Court Life Happy Days in Italia Adorata

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Charles Borromeo), who be- came Pope Gregory XIII in 1572. It was he who revised the calendar by striking out leap year at [234] GLIMPSES OF ITALIAN COURT LIFE the close of each century except the fourth. This Buoncompagni Pope was thoroughly competent to administer the affairs of the great position, both judi- cially and politically. He was a very kindly person, but he abhorred the thought of any one trying to arrogate an influence over him as the cardinals so often used to do. He was a great ...lover of splendor and magnificence, and spent enormous sums on his Papal Court, though he also did much to spread the growth of the Church through missionaries. He was indirectly connected with the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and was always in constant fear of war with the Turks and the heretics. Gregory XV belonged to the other branch of the family of Ludovisi, the estates and titles of which came into the Buoncompagni family through marriage. Ales- sandro Ludovisi also came from Bologna, and was made Pope under the name of Gregory XV in 1623.

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