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Innocent VIII
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originally Giovanni Battista Cibo
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| Pope (1484–92), born in Genoa, Italy. He became Bishop of Savona, Italy (1467), and was made a cardinal (1473) by Pope Sixtus IV, whom he succeeded. In a bull of 1484 he condemned the practice of witchcraft, and sent inquisitors to Germany to arrest and try witches. In 1486 he persecuted the Renaissance philosopher, Pico della Mirandola, condemning his theses as heretical. His wars with several Italian states depleted the papal treasury, and he was regarded as corrupt and of low moral character. He was succeeded by Alexander VI. |
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