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The Medici Popes and the Sack of Rome
From the founding of the Medici bank to the throne of St. Peter, the Medici family's ambition reached its zenith in the Renaissance papacy. This episode traces the rise of Giovanni de' Medici as Pope Leo X, his lavish patronage of art and the crushing debt it left behind, and the disastrous papacy of his cousin Giulio de' Medici, Pope Clement VII. Caught between Francis I and Charles V, Clement's shifting alliances led to the unimaginable: the Sack of Rome in 1527, when mutinous imperial troops rampaged through the Eternal City, massacring clergy and looting churches. It…
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