Book Title: Historia B. Platinae de vitis Pontificum Romanorum. AD. N. Iesu Christo usque ad Paulum II. Venetum papam, longe quam antea Onuphrii Panvinii accessione nunc illustrior reddita. Cui etiam nunc accessit supplementum Pontificum, Primum per eundem Onuphrium usque ad Pium V & deinde per Antonium Cicarellam porro ad Urbanum VIII qui hodie Cath. Rom. ecclesiæ præsidet. Quæ omnia breui & commoda Chronologia illustrantur. Accesserunt nunc demum omnium Pontificum veræ effigies rerum verborumque. Index locupletissimus, cum noua Pontificum serie. Omnia summo studio emendata & correcta.

Author: Platina, 1421-1481

Image Title: Pope Paul III

Description: An image of Paul III, the Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (r. 1519-1523 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina (r. 1523 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (r. 1523-1524 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Porto (r. 1524 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (r. 1524-1534 CE), the Dean of the College of Cardinals (r. 1524-1534 CE), and the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (r. 1534-1549 CE). He wears a pallium while to the left is Paul’s coat of arms with the papal triple tiara above.

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