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Pius IV

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(Biography) original name Giovanni Angelo de' Medici. 1499–1565, pope (1559–65). He reconvened the Council of Trent (1562), confirming its final decrees
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In 1565, after the council finished its work, Pope Pius IV issued the Roman Catechism and revision of the breviary and the missal.
The "Casina Pio IV" was created by Pope Paul IV (Gian Pietro Carafa, 1555-1559), work on it only ended in 1558 during the pontificate of Pope Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo De' Medici, 1559-1565), who then used it both as a summer residence and as a hunting lodge at a time when wildlife was still rife in the Vatican.
In my case, research on the development of the Borgo Pio and its fortifications in Rome under Pius IV (1559-65) led me into issues relating to Rome's floods, drainage, drinking water, and the politics of the city's water supply.
Pope Pius IV (1559-65) reconvened and successfully concluded the Council of Trent.
As one of Pius IV's legates to Trent in its third period, Gonzaga's disposition toward negotiation and compromise availed him little.
Duston, now retired, found millions of dollars from worldwide donors of all faiths, to restore one of the greatest architectural jewels of the Vatican, the Casina of the Medici pope, Pius IV. Built originally between 1553 and 1562, this Renaissance marvel of classical beauty and proportion strikes one as a little part of heaven.
As architect to the Vatican palace during the reign of first Paul Iv and then the high-spending Pius IV, who poured a million and a half gold scudi into architecture and fortifications during the first three years of his pontificate, Ligorio was at the heart of renaissance architecture during the late 1550s and early 1560s.
They happened during the last two years of the pontificate of Paul TV, 1558-59, (Paul IV was elected pope in 1556) and the early stages of the next pontiff, Pius IV Their surroundings were either Rome or central Italy.
Although the Council of Trent was concluded in 1563 during the reign of Pope Pius IV, the church was still struggling to fully implement the 'doctrinal statements' due to internal and external challenges (Joachim Smet O.
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