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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER II
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Yet he hated the Spanish ascendancy with a hatred far more fierce and bitter than that of Paul III.

His ineffectual efforts to shake off the yoke of Philip II.

was the last spasm of the older Papal policy of resistance to temporal sovereigns, the last appeal made in pursuance of that policy to France by an Italian Pontiff.[16] [Footnote 16: Paul IV.

as Pope was feeble compared with his predecessors, Julius II.

and Leo X.; the Guises, on whom he relied for resuscitating the old French party in the South, were but half-successful adventurers, mere shadows of the Angevine invaders whom they professed to represent.] The object of this excursion into the coming period is to show in how deep a sense Paul III.


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