biography
pronunciation:
[breshia]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1100–55)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and politician, born in Brescia, N Italy. He adopted the monastic life, but his criticism of the Church's wealth and temporal power led to his banishment from Italy (1139). In France he met with bitter hostility from St Bernard of Clairvaux, and took refuge for five years in Zürich. An insurrection against the papal government in Rome drew him there (1143), and for 10 years he struggled to found a republic on ancient Roman lines. On the arrival of Emperor Frederick I in 1155, he was executed. |
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