He had the challenge of persuading Pope
Clement VII of Henry VIII's divorce wishes.
In the wedding contract he negotiated for her in 1531,
Clement VII excluded from the dowry her possessions in Tuscany.
The title page bears Cosimo's coat of arms, and the full title makes reference to its dedication to Giulio de' Medici, "who then was made Supreme Pontiff and called Pope
Clement VII." (76)
Peter's"; Scott Opler, "'Palladio and Vignola on the Orders'; Benjamin Paul, "Issues of Political Iconography:
Clement VII's Personal and Political Concerns in his Representation as Leo I in the Sala di Costantino"; Nicholas Penny, "Absent Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Altarpieces"; Sherly E.
(105.) Ferrante is said to have repaid the favor by intervening on Rafaello's behalf when he was imprisoned by Pope
Clement VII for his spirited defense of the Florentine Republic during the siege of 1529.
His fortunes were temporarily reversed when Leo died in 1521, but improved still more when Giulia de' Medici was elected Pope
Clement VII in 1523.
"If you get things you have "It's laughable to think they were ever going to get a good deal when negotiating with the EU, how would they ever strike fear into anybody?" Starkey describes the Reformation, where the Church of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church after Pope
Clement VII refused Henry a divorce, as a previous version of Brexit.
Claudius II and Pope
Clement VII were both killed by enemies who poisoned them with deadly mushrooms.
The outstanding cast includes tenor John Osborn in the title role as the Renaissance sculptor commissioned by the Pope to create his likeness; bass-baritone Maurizio Muraro as Giacomo Balducci, the Papal treasurer; baritone Laurent Naouri as Fieramosca (Balducci's prospective son-in-law); bass Orlin Anastassov as Pope
Clement VII (yes, the Pope is a cast member, and that was a controversial move at the time); soprano Mariangela Sicilia as Teresa (Balducci's daughter) and Canadian mezzo-soprano Michele Losier in the substantial trouser role of Ascanio (Cellini's apprentice).
He discusses Paradise in contention: the "foremost chapel in the world" and Sixtus IV; triumphal gate and entrance hall to the City of God: Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes and Julius II; tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and the heavenly Jerusalem: Raphael's tapestries and Leo X; and the gate to eternity: Michelangelo's Last Judgement,
Clement VII, and Paul III.
As he gained an increasingly important role in family patriarch Giulio de' Medici's (Pope
Clement VII) bid for Medici grandeur (due to the lack of males in the senior Medici line), so too did his presence in historical records.