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Urban VIII

noun

Italian pope from 1623 to 1644 who sanctioned the condemnation of Galileo but later freed him (1568-1644). Synonym: Maffeo Barberini.

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... allusion to the well-known nepotism of the Popes. The man here mentioned is one of the Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII.] ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... Fauns, and that of Athens was his own masterpiece. Rome now contains about thirty of the same character. When the ditch of St. Angelo was cleansed under Urban VIII., the workmen found the sleeping Faun of the Barberini palace; but a leg, a thigh, and the right arm, had been broken from that beautiful statue, (Winkelman, Hist. de l'Art, tom. ii. p. 52, 53, tom ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

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