The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume 22: Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources

The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages #22

by Ludwig von Pastor, Ludwig von Pastor

Excerpt from The History of the Popes From the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 22: Drawn From the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources
Sixtus V. Is not the declared enemy of antiquity His idea in the erection of the four Obelisks The Vatican Obelisk - its removal contemplated by earlier Popes 1585 Sixtus V. Is determined to carry it out - appoints a special commission for the undertaking The plan of Fontana Who at once sets to work - the Pope gives him full powers 1586 It is possible to fix April 3oth for the raising.
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First published July 21, 2015

About the author

Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes. He was raised to the nobility by the Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1908. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.