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... Rome , increased the subsidies and importance of the Vatican Library , and showed favour to theologians and canonists but did not ne- glect the fine arts . He cajoled Michelangelo into finishing the fresco " The Last Judgment " in the ...
... Rome , increased the subsidies and importance of the Vatican Library , and showed favour to theologians and canonists but did not ne- glect the fine arts . He cajoled Michelangelo into finishing the fresco " The Last Judgment " in the ...
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... Rome when it was captured in 546 by the Ostrogothic king Totila , whom he courageously persuaded to spare the Romans . Since the Goths had been warring with the Byzantines in Italy , Totila sent Pelagius on an unsuccessful mission to ...
... Rome when it was captured in 546 by the Ostrogothic king Totila , whom he courageously persuaded to spare the Romans . Since the Goths had been warring with the Byzantines in Italy , Totila sent Pelagius on an unsuccessful mission to ...
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... Rome . His career is significant mainly as an episode in Rome's expansion . The son of Demetrius II and his wife Phthia ( Chryseis ) , the young prince was adopted , af- ter his father's death in 229 , by his half - cousin Antigonus ...
... Rome . His career is significant mainly as an episode in Rome's expansion . The son of Demetrius II and his wife Phthia ( Chryseis ) , the young prince was adopted , af- ter his father's death in 229 , by his half - cousin Antigonus ...
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