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 IV

Description: An image of Paul IV, the Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (r. 1544-1546 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (r. 1546-1550 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (r. 1550-1553 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Porto (r. 1553 CE), the Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (r. 1553-1555 CE), and the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (r. 1555-1559 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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