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Giovanni Battista Cibo
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Noun1.Giovanni Battista Cibo - Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
Innocent VIII
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It was taken by the Turks in the 14th century and sent by Sultan Bajazet as a gift to Pope Innocent VIII in 1492.
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These supposed 'witches' were condemned by Pope Innocent VIII in his Bull of 1484, which started the witch craze in Europe, estimated to have caused the death (mostly a horrible one) of up to 9 million women from the 15th to the 18th century.
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The specific invitation to cross the Alps by the duke of Milan, Lodovico Sforza, was only the last in a lengthy list of such appeals: the Venetian republic during the Ferrara war (1484); Pope Innocent VIII during the Barons' War (1486) and again in 1489.
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