Pope Innocent X
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Pope Innocent X, born Giovanni Battista Pamphili, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.
Portrait of Innocent X, by Diego Velázquez (1650, Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome)
Guido Reni's archangel Michael (Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome) tramples a Satan with the vividly recognizable features of Pope Innocent X.
Bronze statue of Innocent X from 1645 to 1649, by Alessandro Algardi.
Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
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Giovanni Battista Rinuccini was an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid-seventeenth century. He was a noted legal scholar and became chamberlain to Pope Gregory XV. In 1625 Pope Urban VIII mad
