The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . . Landelle SAINT AGNES. b.* .; ALEXANDER VIL 97 liis earlier ones; at twenty-one, theses of civil law; and at twenty-sevenhe answered all theological questions whatever. He dedicated these lasttheses to Father Mutius Vitelleschi, general of the Jesuits. All those cares and labors had a definite object. The young student de-sired to be favorably received when he should go to Rome, where his nameah-eady was honorably kno^^^l. The great Augustine Chigi, under PopeJulius II., had filled the office of superintendent of the
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . . Landelle SAINT AGNES. b.* .; ALEXANDER VIL 97 liis earlier ones; at twenty-one, theses of civil law; and at twenty-sevenhe answered all theological questions whatever. He dedicated these lasttheses to Father Mutius Vitelleschi, general of the Jesuits. All those cares and labors had a definite object. The young student de-sired to be favorably received when he should go to Rome, where his nameah-eady was honorably kno^^^l. The great Augustine Chigi, under PopeJulius II., had filled the office of superintendent of the pontifical finances,and he became the most generous Mecaenas of the artists who then adornedRome, and especially of Raphael. Business frequently calling him to Rome, says Quatremere de Quincy, Augustine at length made that city his residence, where he was consideredthe wealthiest private individual in Italy. The extent of his connectionsmay be inferred from the protests and demands which he addressed to thecourt of France, on the subject of several vessels it ha
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