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PIUS  , the name of ten popes . Plus I., See also:

pope from about 141 to 154 . He was the See also:brother of See also:Hermas, author of the Shepherd . Plus II . (Enea Silvio de' See also:Piccolomini, known in literature as See also:Aeneas Silvius), pope from 1458 to 1464, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:October 1405, at Corsignano (afterward called See also:Pienza after him), near See also:Siena . His See also:family, though poor, was See also:noble, .and claimed to trace descent from See also:Romulus . The eldest of eighteen See also:children, he had to See also:work on the See also:farm with his See also:father, until a See also:priest taught him the rudiments of letters, which enabled him, at the See also:age of eighteen, to go as a poor student to Siena, dividing his See also:time between severe humanistic studies and a See also:life of sensual See also:pleasure . He was attracted to See also:Florence by the teaching of See also:Filelfo . His father urged him to become a lawyer, but he accepted the position of secretary to Domenico Capranica, See also:bishop of See also:Fermo, and went with him to the See also:council of See also:Basel, where he stayed several years (1431-1435), changing masters whenever he could improve his position . As secretary of the bishop of See also:Novara he became engaged in a See also:conspiracy against Pope See also:Eugenius IV.; his See also:master was caught and imprisoned, and Aeneas only saved himself by a hasty See also:flight . He was next (1435) employed as secretary of See also:Cardinal See also:Nicholas Albergati (d . 1443) at the See also:congress of See also:Arras, where See also:peace was made between See also:France and See also:Burgundy .

From here he took a See also:

long See also:journey to See also:Scotland and See also:England, on a See also:secret See also:diplomatic See also:mission; he had numerous adventures, in one of which he nearly lost his life . In 1436 he was back at Basel, and., although a layman, obtained a seat in the council and exercised considerable See also:influence . In See also:order to See also:control it better Eugenius tried to get the council to move to Florence; a minority agreed and seceded; the See also:majority, however, stayed where they were and took vigorous See also:measures against the pope, culminating in his deposition on the 25th of See also:June 1438 . Aeneas took an active See also:part in the council; and though he still declined to take orders, he was given a position on the conciliar See also:conclave which elected Amadeus of See also:Savoy as pope under the See also:title of See also:Felix V . In return for his services Felix made Aeneas papal secretary . A new See also:period of his career opened in 1442, when he was sent by the council to take part in the See also:diet of See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main . Here he met See also:Frederick III. of See also:Germany, who made him poet See also:laureate and his private secretary . He ingratiated himself with the See also:chancellor, Kaspar Schlick, at See also:Vienna, one of whose adventures he celebrated in See also:Lucretia and Eurialus, a novel in the See also:style of See also:Boccaccio . At this period he also wrote his witty but immoral See also:play, Chrisis . In 1446 he took orders as subdeacon, and wrote that he meant to reform, " forsaking See also:Venus for Bacchus," chiefly on the ground of satiety, and also, as he frankly wrote, because the clerical profession offered him more advantages than he could secure outside it . Aeneas was useful to Frederick as a diplomatist, and managed to give all parties the impression that he was the devoted See also:advocate of each . During the struggle between pope and council he induced Frederick to be neutral for a while .

He tcok an important part in the diet of See also:

Nuremberg (1444), and being sent on an See also:embassy to Eugenius in the following See also:year he made his peace with the pope . At the diet of Frankfort (See also:Sept . 1446) Aeneas was instrumental in changing the majority of the See also:electors from their hostile position towards pope and See also:emperor into a friendly one . He brought the See also:good See also:news to Eugenius shortly before his See also:death (Feb . 7, ,447), and made See also:friends with the new pope, Nicholas V., by whom he was made bishop of Siena . He was an See also:agent of Frederick in making the celebrated See also:concordat of Vienna (also called concordat of See also:Aschaffenburg) in See also:February 1448 . His services to pope and emperor brought him the titles of See also:prince of the See also:empire and cardinal, positions which he used rather unscrupulously to get as many lucrative benefices into his hands as possible . Those in Germany brought him two thousand ducats a year . The death of See also:Calixtus III . (who succeeded Nicholas V.) occurred on the 5th of See also:August 1458 . After a hot fight in the conclave, in which it seemed that the wealthy See also:French cardinal, See also:Guillaume d'See also:Estouteville, See also:archbishop of See also:Rouen and bishop of See also:Ostia, would be elected, the intrigues of Aeneas and of his friend Rodrigo See also:Borgia (later the notorious See also:Alexander VI.) gave the victory to the cardinal of Siena, who took the title Pius II., with a See also:reminiscence of See also:Virgil's " Pius Aeneas." The humanists hailed his See also:election with joy, and flocked around to secure a See also:share of the good things, but they were bitterly disappointed, as Pius did not prove himself the liberal and undiscriminating See also:patron they hoped . The fall of See also:Constantinople in 1453 had made a deep impression upon Pius, and he never ceased to preach the crusade against the Turk .

In See also:

September 1459 he opened a congress at See also:Mantua for the purpose of considering what could be done in this direction . His proposals for the raising of troops and See also:money met with See also:general opposition . The French were angry because Pius had crowned the See also:Spanish claimant, See also:Ferdinand, See also:king of See also:Naples, and thus disposed of the pretensions of Rene of See also:Anjou . The Germans also objected to Pius's plans, but finally agreed to furnish some troops and money, promises which they did not carry out . Pius See also:felt how much the position of the papacy had fallen in importance since the days of See also:Urban and See also:Innocent III., and, believing that the See also:change was due to the general See also:councils which had asserted See also:power over the popes, he changed his position, which before his election to the papal See also:throne had been that of a warm advocate of the conciliar claims, and issued (See also:Jan . 146o) the See also:bull Execrabilis et in pristinis temporibus inauditus, in which he condemned as heretical the See also:doctrine that the councils were See also:superior to the popes, and proclaimed the See also:anathema against any one who should dare to See also:appeal to one . He issued another bull at the same time, promising forgiveness of sins to those who would take part in the crusade, and then dissolved the congress . While Pius was at Mantua See also:war See also:broke out between the French and Spanish in See also:southern See also:Italy, and a rising of the barons devastated the Campagna . Hurrying back to See also:Rome Pius succeeded in quelling the disorders, and sent his See also:nephew See also:Antonio Todeschini to the aid of Ferdinand, who made him See also:duke of See also:Amalfi and gave him his natural daughter Maria in See also:marriage . This measure still further alienated the pope from the French, with whom he was at that time negotiating for the See also:abrogation of the Pragmatic See also:Sanction . When See also:Louis XI. came to the throne (Nov . 1461), he sent to Pius saying that he had abolished the Pragmatic Sanction, hoping in return to get the See also:kingdom of Naples for his countryman Rene of Anjou .

When Pius refused to do anything to the See also:

prejudice of Ferdinand, Louis changed his attitude, and allowed the protests of the university of See also:Paris and the parlements to persuade him to restore the See also:ancient liberties of the Gallican See also:Church . At the same time a serious See also:quarrel with the Germans prevented anything being done towards a crusade . See also:George Podiebrad, king of Bohemia, was plotting to depose the emperor Frederick III., who was sup-ported by Pius . Diether, archbishop of See also:Mainz, took the See also:side of Podiebrad, and replied to Pius's measures by appealing to a general council . He was declared deposed by the pope, but kept his seat, and in 1464 compelled the pope to recognize him again . The quarrel with Podiebrad, who was accused of supporting the Utraquist See also:heresy, continued with increasing bitterness, but without any decisive result, until the death of Pius . In the meantime the pope did what he could to further the cause of the crusade . The See also:discovery of See also:alum mines at See also:Tolfa gave him an unexpected pecuniary resource, and to stimulate the zeal of Christendom, Pius took the See also:cross on the 18th of June 1464 . He set out for See also:Venice, where he intended to See also:sail for the See also:East, but he was attacked with a See also:fever, and on the 14th of August 1464 he died . Pius II. was a voluminous author . Besides poems, a novel and a play, he wrote a number of orations, which were considered See also:models of eloquence in their See also:day . His most valuable work, however, is his Commentaries, a See also:history of his own life and times, told in an interesting and rational manner .

He is very See also:

frank about himself, and most of the adverse judgments which have been pronounced on his See also:character have been based on his own confessions . He was an opportunist, sailing along with any favourable See also:breeze, and not quite enough in See also:earnest about anything to pursue the same tack steadily for long . We must give him the See also:credit, however, of advocating a statesman-like policy in the interests of the whole of See also:Europe in trying to get the See also:powers to unite against the See also:Turks, who threatened to averwhelm them all . See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (1904), vol. xv., where a full bibliography will be found; M . See also:Creighton, History of the Papacy during the See also:Reformation, vol. ii . (See also:London, 1882) ; L . Pastor, History of the Popes from the See also:close of the See also:Middle Ages (Eng. trans., 1896, vol. ii.) ; Voigt, Pius II . (1856-1863) . The Commentaries of Pius were published in 1584, under the name of Gobelinus Persona . His other See also:works are found in Aeneae Silvii See also:opera omnia (Basel, 1551) . See also W . Boulting, Aeneas Silvius (1909) .

(P . SM.) Plus III . (See also:

Francesco Nanni-Todeschini-Piccolomini), pope from the 22nd of September to the 18th of October 1503, was born at Siena on the 9th of May 1439 . After studying See also:law at See also:Perugia, he was made archbishop of Siena and cardinal-See also:deacon of St Eustachio, when only twenty-two years of age, by his See also:uncle Pius II., who permitted him to assume the name and arms of the Piccolomini . He was employed by subsequent popes in several important legations, as by See also:Paul II. at the diet of See also:Regensburg, and by See also:Sixtus IV. to secure the restoration of ecclesiastical authority in See also:Umbria . He bravely opposed the policy of Alexander VI., and was elected pope, amid the disturbances consequent upon the death of the latter, through the interested influence of Cardinal della Rovere, afterwards See also:Julius II., and was crowned on the 8th of October 1503 . He permitted Cesare Borgia to return to Rome, but promptly took in See also:hand the reform of the See also:curia . Pius was a See also:man of blameless life, and would doubtless have accomplished much had he lived . His successor was Julius II . See L . Pastor, History of the Popes, vol. vi., trans. by F . I .

Antrobus (London, 1898) ; M . Creighton, History of the Papacy, vol. v . (Lon-See also:

don, 1901); F . See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the Middle Ages, vol. trans. by Mrs G . W . See also:Hamilton (London, 1900-1902) ; Piccolomini, "Il Pontificato di Pio III.," inArchivio stor. ital., vol.,v . (Firenze, 1903) . Plus IV . (Giovanni Angelo See also:Medici, or " Medighino "), pope from 1559 to 1565, was born at See also:Milan on the 31st of See also:March 1499, of an obscure family, not related to the Medici of Florence (a claim to such relationship was advanced after Giovanni Angelo had attained to prominence) . The See also:fortune of the family was established by an See also:elder brother, Gian Giacomo, who fought his way to the marquisate of Marignano and distinguished him-self in the service of the emperor . Giovanni Angelo studied in See also:Bologna and See also:Pavia, and for some time followed the law . Entering the service of the Church, he found favour with Paul III., who entrusted him with the governorship of several important towns, and in 1549 made him a cardinal .

Julius III. sent him upon See also:

missions to Germany and See also:Hungary . With Paul IV. he was out of favour, because not in sympathy with his policy, and accordingly retired to Milan . In the protracted and momentous conclave that followed the death of Paul the election of Pius (Dec . 25, 1559) was due to a See also:compromise between the Spanish and French factions . In temperament and See also:habit Pius was the See also:antithesis of his predecessor: affable, vivacious, convivial . He was, moreover, astute, diplomatic and experienced in affairs . He allowed the reform See also:movement See also:free course, but tried to repair certain in-justices of Paul IV . (for example, releasing and reinstating See also:Morone, who had been imprisoned on a See also:charge of heresy), and mitigated some of his extreme decrees . But to the nephews of Paul he showed no See also:mercy: they were charged with various crimes, condemned, upon testimony of suspicious validity, and executed on the 5th of March 1561 . The Colonnesi, who had been active hl. the See also:prosecution, recovered Paliano . But under Pius V. See also:judgment was reversed, the memory of the Caraffa rehabilitated, and restitution made to the family . Pius IV. himself was not guiltless of nepotism; but the bestowment of the cardinalate and the archbishopric of Milan upon his nephew, the pure and upright Carlo See also:Borromeo, redounded to the See also:honour of his pontificate and the welfare of the church .

With England lost to the papacy, Germany overwhelmingly See also:

Protestant, and France on the See also:verge of See also:civil war, Pius realized how fatuous was the See also:anti-Spanish policy of his predecessor . He therefore recognized Ferdinand as emperor, and conciliated See also:Philip II. with extensive ecclesiastical privileges . But subsequently, antagonized by Philip's arrogance, he inclined to-wards France, and gave troops and money for the war against the See also:Huguenots . After a suspension of ten years the council of See also:Trent reconvened on the 18th of See also:January 1562 . Among the demands presented by the various nations were, the recognition of the equality of the episcopate, communion in both kinds, clerical marriage, and the use of the See also:vernacular in Church services . It required all the pope's See also:diplomacy to avoid compliance on the one hand, and a See also:breach with the powers on the other . Thanks to Morone and Borromeo, however, he achieved his end . The council was dissolved on the 4th of See also:December 1563, and its decrees and See also:definitions confirmed by the pope (Jan . 26, 1564), who reserved to himself the See also:sole right of See also:interpretation . The decrees were immediately accepted by most of the See also:Catholic states; only tardily, however, and with See also:reservation by France and See also:Spain . Various measures were taken for carrying the decrees into effect: See also:residence was strictly enjoined; See also:plurality of benefices prohibited; the See also:Inquisition resumed, under the See also:presidency of Ghislieri (afterwards Pius V.); a new edition of the See also:Index published (1564) ; and the " Tridentine creed " promulgated (Nov . 13, 1564) .

After the termination of the council Pius indulged his See also:

desire for ease and pleasure, to the See also:great offence of the rigorists . A certain fanatic, Benedetto See also:Accolti, brooding over the pope's unworthiness, felt inspired to remove him, but his See also:plot was discovered and punished (1565) . Pius fortified Rome, and contributed much to the embellishment of the See also:city—among other works, the church of Sta Maria degli Angeli in the See also:Baths of See also:Diocletian; the Porta Pia; the See also:Villa Pia in the Vatican Gardens; and the See also:Palace of the Conservatori . He died on the 9th of December, and was succeeded by Pius V . See Panvinio, continuator of Platina, De vitis pontiff. rom . (a contemporary of Pius) ; Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae summorum pontiff. rom . (Rome 1601–1602; also contemporary); T . See also:Muller, Das Konklave Pius IV . (See also:Gotha, 1889; more comprehensive than the title suggests); See also:Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans., See also:Austin), i . 323 seq., 358 seq . ; and v . See also:Reumont, Gesch. der Stadt Rom. iii .

2, 534 seq., 730 seq . (T . F . C.) Pius V . (Michele Ghislieri), pope from 1566 to 1572, was born on the 17th of January 1504, in the Milanese . At the age of fourteen he became a Dominican See also:

monk . His austere life, his vehemence in attacking heresy and his rigorous discipline as See also:prior of several monasteries proved his fitness for the work of reform, and he was appointed inquisitor in See also:Como, where his zeal provoked such opposition as to compel his recall (1550) . The See also:chief inquisitor, Caraffa, convinced of his value, straightway sent him upon a mission to See also:Lombardy, and in 1551 appointed him See also:commissary-general of the See also:Holy See also:Office . When Caraffa became pope, Ghislieri was made bishop of See also:Nepi and See also:Sutri, cardinal (1557), and finally See also:grand inquisitor, which office he discharged in a manner to make the name of " Fra Michele dell' Inquisizione " a terror . In this office he was continued by Pius IV., whom, however, he repelled by his excessive severity, and antagonized by his censoriousness and obstinacy . But the movement with which he was so fully identified was irresistible; and, after the death of Pius IV., the rigorists, led by Borromeo, had no difficulty in making him pope (Jan . 7, 1566) .

Though pope, Pius did not cease to be a monk: his ascetic mode of life and his devotions suffered no interruption . With-out delay he applied himself to the work of reform . Decrees and ordinances were issued with astonishing rapidity: the papal See also:

court was rid of everything unseemly, and became a See also:model of sobriety; prostitutes were driven from the city. or confined to a certain See also:quarter; severe penalties were attached to See also:Sunday desecration, See also:profanity and See also:animal baiting; clerical residence was enforced; conventuals were compelled to live in strict seclusion according to their vows; catechetical instruction was enjoined . A new See also:catechism appeared in 1566, followed by an improved See also:breviary (1568), and an improved See also:missal (1570) . The use of indulgences and dispensations was restricted, and the See also:penitential See also:system reformed . Pius was the avowed enemy of nepotism . One nephew, it is true, he made cardinal, but allowed him no influence: the See also:rest of his relatives he kept at a distance . By the constitution Admonet nos (March 29, 1567), he forbade the reinvestitureof fiefs that should revert to the Holy See, and See also:bound the cardinals by See also:oath to observe it . In March 1569 Pius ordered the See also:expulsion of the See also:Jews from the states of the Church . For commercial reasons they were allowed to remain in Rome and See also:Ancona, but only upon humiliating conditions . In February 1571, the Umiliati, a degenerate monastic order of Milan, was suppressed on See also:account of its complicity in an See also:attempt upon the life of the archbishop, Carlo Borromeo . The election of Pius to the papacy was the enthronement of the Inquisition: the utter extinction of heresy was his See also:darling ambition, and the See also:possession of power only intensified his See also:passion .

The rules governing the Holy Office were sharpened; old charges, long suspended, were revived; See also:

rank offered no See also:protection, but rather exposed its possessor to fiercer attack; none were pursued more relentlessly than the cultured, among whom many of the Protestant doctrines had found See also:acceptance; princes and .states withdrew their protection, and courted the favour of the Holy See by surrendering distinguished offenders . Cosmo de' Medici handed over Pietro See also:Carnesecchi (and two years later received in See also:reward the title of grand duke, Sept . 1569); Venice delivered Guido Zanetti; Philip II., Bartolome de See also:Carranza, the See also:arch-bishop of See also:Toledo . In March 1571 the See also:Congregation of the Index was established and greater thoroughness introduced into the pursuit of heretical literature . The result was the flight of hundreds of printers to See also:Switzerland and Germany . Thus heresy was hunted out of Italy: the only regret of Pius was that he had sometimes been too lenient . In 1567 Pius condemned the doctrines of See also:Michael See also:Baius, a See also:professor of See also:Louvain, who taught See also:justification by faith, asserted the sufficiency of the Scriptures, and disparaged outward forms . Baius submitted; but his doctrines were afterwards taken up by the Jansenists . The See also:political activities of Pius were controlled by one principle, war upon the heretic and infidel . He spurred Philip II. on in the See also:Netherlands, and approved the bloody work of See also:Alva . He denounced all temporizing with the Huguenots, and commanded their utter extermination (ad internecionem usque) . While it cannot be proven that he was privy to the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew, still his violent counsels could not fail to stir up the most See also:savage passions .

He exclaimed loudly against the emperor's See also:

toleration of Protestantism, and all but wished his defeat at the hands of the Turks . He urged a general See also:coalition of the Catholic states against the Protestants; and yet published, in sharper See also:form, the bull In coena domini (1568), which was regarded by these very states as an attack upon their See also:sovereignty . One of his cherished schemes was the invasion of England and the dethronement of See also:Elizabeth, whom he excommunicated and declared a usurper (Feb . 25, 1570); but he was obliged to content himself with abetting plots and fomenting rebellions . He did, however, effect an See also:alliance with Spain and Venice against the Turks, and contributed to the victory of See also:Lepanto (Oct . 6, 1571) . Thus lived and wrought Pius, presenting " a See also:strange See also:union of singleness of purpose, magnanimity, austerity and profound religious feeling with sour bigotry, relentless hatred and bloody persecution " (Ranke) . He died on the 1st of May 1572; and was canonized by See also:Clement XI. in 1712 . See Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae summorum pontiff. rom . (Rome, 1601–1602 ; a contemporary of Pius) ; Acta sanctorum, maij, torn. i. pp . 616 seq., containing the life by Gabuzio (16o5), based upon an earlier one by Catena (1586) ; See also:Falloux, Hist. de St See also:Pie V . (3rd ed., Paris, 1858), eulogistic; Mendham, Life and Pontificate of St Pius V .

(London, 1832), a See also:

bitter polemic . The life of Pius has also been written by Fuenmayor (See also:Madrid, 1595), See also:Paolo Alessandro See also:Maffei (Rome, 1712), and by T . M . Granello (Bologna, 1877) . His letters have been edited by Catena (vide supra), Goubau (See also:Antwerp, 1640), and a select number in a French See also:translation, by de See also: