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-as of [22 JULY 2024]-
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*latin –> Paulus III*
(’29 february 1468′ – ’10 november 1549′)
born Alessandro Farnese
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-[pope paul 3] was ‘pope’ from ’13 October 1534′ to his death in 1549-
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(he came to the papal throne in an era following the sack of Rome in 1527 and rife with uncertainties in the Catholic Church following the ‘Protestant Reformation’)
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(during his pontificate, and in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, new Catholic religious orders and societies, such as…)
the Jesuits
the Barnabites
the Congregation of the Oratory
(…attracted a popular following)
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(he convened the ‘Council of Trent’ in 1545)
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(he was a significant patron of the arts and employed nepotism to advance the power and fortunes of his family)
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(it is to ‘Pope Paul III’ that ‘Nicolaus Copernicus’ dedicated De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres))
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*SKETCHES*
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☜ *“POPE CLEMENT 7”*
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*“POPE JULIUS 3”* ☞ 
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