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Innocent VIII

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Innocent VIII, 1432–92, pope (1484–92), a Genoese named Giovanni Battista Cibo; successor of Sixtus IV. He was made a cardinal in 1473. His close friend, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II), largely directed the papal affairs. Like his predecessors, Innocent wished to stop the Turkish advance, but he succeeded by means other than the crusade he originally planned. Djem, brother and rival of Sultan Beyazid II Beyazid II, 1447–1513, Ottoman sultan (1481–1512), son and successor of Muhammad II to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). With the help of the corps of Janissaries he put down the revolt of his brother Jem.
..... Click the link for more information. , was being held captive by Pierre d'Aubusson Aubusson, Pierre d' , 1423–1503, French soldier, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and grand master of the Knights Hospitalers (1476–1503). In 1480 he valiantly defended Rhodes against Ottoman Sultan Muhammad II.
..... Click the link for more information. ; the pope saw that if he held over the sultan the threat of supporting Djem's pretensions, Beyazid would come to terms. Beyazid (1490) agreed to leave Europe at peace if the pope kept Djem captive. Innocent VIII was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness. He was succeeded by Alexander VI.
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These supposed 'witches' were condemned by Pope Innocent VIII in his Bull of 1484, which started the witch craze in Europe, estimated to have caused the death (mostly a horrible one) of up to 9 million women from the 15th to the 18th century.
Witch craze by Bucher, Marcel / Swiss News
of Taddeo McCarthy (1455-1492), who died on his journey from Rome back to Ireland after being wrongly excommunicated then rehabilitated by Pope Innocent VIII (Cathedral of Ivrea, Italy) Your skull looks out from the glass box I want to open to hear your unfinished song come through that upper jaw of unperfect teeth, an ave-maria-cum-spiritu-tuo-chant, though your wise and humble tongue is gone, your brogue muted, Latin silenced on the road home.
Mortal remains by Woodworth, Anne Harding / U.S. Catholic
Gutenberg's neat idea threw the church into a tizzy, though, and in 1467 Pope Innocent VIII decreed that all new books had to be reviewed by authorities before general issuance.
Note on an index worth shelving by Doyle, Brian / U.S. Catholic
 
 
 
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