Donation of Pepin
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The Donation of Pepin, or Donation of Pippin, was the transfer of Frankish territory in Central Italy to Pope Stephen II made by Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, in 756. Credited with "effectively
Fresco by a painter from the school of Giovan Battista Ricci, depicting the abbot St. Fulrad giving Pepin's written guarantee to Pope Stephen II.
Carolingian coin of Pepin the Short, dating from 754/55 to 768.
A follis coin of King Aistulf, dating from 749 to 756.
Papal States
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The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to 1870. They were among the ma
Donation of Pepin
…Empire's decline in Italy and marked both "an important moment in the papal–Carolingian alliance" and an "important step" in the formation of the Papal States. With the fall of Ravenna, the imperial capital in Italy, to Aistulf, King of the Lombards in 751, "any semblance of imperial protection for Rome" had…
The Quirinal Palace, 1777
Pope Gregory XVI.
Barricades at Porta San Giovanni, photographed on 21 September 1870, after the breach of the Aurelian Walls
Men and women in traditional dress seated on a rocky outcrop in the Roman countryside, c. 1850–1853