Joseph Gill
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LOCATION: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Former Professor of Byzantine Greek Language and of Byzantine History, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, 1946–67. Author of The Council of Florence and others.
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Nicholas V was an influential Renaissance pope (reigned 1447–55) and founder of the Vatican Library. Soon after his election, he brought to an end the schism caused by rivalries between popes and councils. By 1455 he had restored peace to the Papal States and to Italy. He began a program for the…
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