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Leo XI

noun

  1. Alessandro de'Medici, 1535–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605.


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Turning into the left aisle,—on the right is the tomb of Leo XI.,

Shortly afterwards it passed into the hands of the Medici family, and was greatly enlarged by Cardinal Alessandro de Medici, afterwards Leo XI.

He lived and worked chiefly at Rome; executed the tomb of Leo XI in St. Peter's, a bronze statue of Innocent X, and a marble relief with life-size figures over the altar of St. Leo there.

Its library was one of the most precious in Europe, but Tilly, who headed the Bavarians who entered Heidelberg in 1622, presented the greater part of it to Pope Leo XI.

Clement died on the 5th of March 1605, and was succeeded by Leo XI.

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