biography
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Leo X
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originally Giovanni de' Medici
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| lived:
| (1475–1521)
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| biography:
| Pope (1513–21), born in Florence, NC Italy. It is as a patron of learning and art that he is best remembered. He founded a Greek college in Rome and established a Greek press. His vast project for the rebuilding of St Peter's, and his permitting the preaching of an indulgence in order to raise funds, provoked Luther's Reformation. |
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