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'{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from 1592 to 1605}} {{distinguish|Antipope Clement VIII}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Pope | honorific-prefix = [[List of popes|Pope]] | name = Clement VIII | title = [[Bishop of Rome]] | image = Papst Clemens VIII Italian 17th century.jpg | caption = Portrait by an unknown Italian artist, 17th century | birth_name = Ippolito Aldobrandini | church = [[Catholic Church]] | term_start = 30 January 1592<ref>http://www.jgray.org/codes/1917CIC.txt {{Bare URL plain text|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius12/p12layap.htm|title = Guiding Principles of the Lay Apostolate|date = 5 October 1957}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AiS4eZsQyCwC|title = The Law of the Church: A Cyclopaedia of Canon Law for English-speaking Countries|last1 = Taunton|first1 = Ethelred Luke|year = 1906}}</ref> | term_end = 3 March 1605 | predecessor = [[Pope Innocent IX|Innocent IX]] | successor = [[Pope Leo XI|Leo XI]] | ordination = 31 December 1580 nigga | ordained_by = | consecration = 2 February 1592 | consecrated_by = [[Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza]] | cardinal = 18 December 1585 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Sixtus V|Sixtus V]] | birth_date = 24 February 1536 | birth_place = [[Fano]], [[Marche]], [[Papal States]] | death_date = {{death date and age |1605|3|3|1536|2|24|df=y}} | death_place = [[Rome]], [[Papal States]] | previous_post = [[San Pancrazio|Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio fuori le Mura]] (1585–92) | other = Clement }} {{infobox popestyles |image = C o a Clementem VIII.svg |dipstyle = [[His Holiness]] |offstyle = Your Holiness |relstyle = Holy Father |deathstyle = }} '''Pope Clement VIII''' ({{lang-la|Clemens VIII}}; {{lang-it|Clemente VIII}}; 24 February 1536&nbsp;– 3 March 1605), born '''Ippolito Aldobrandini''', was head of the [[Catholic Church]] and ruler of the [[Papal States]] from 2 February 1592 to his death in March 1605. Born in Fano, Italy<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father/clemente-viii.html|title=Clement VIII|website=w2.vatican.va}}</ref> to a prominent [[Florence|Florentine]] family, he initially came to prominence as a [[canon law]]yer before being made a [[Cardinal-Priest]] in 1585. In 1592 he was [[Papal conclave, 1592|elected Pope]] and took the name of Clement. During his papacy he effected the reconciliation of [[Henry IV of France]] to the Catholic faith and was instrumental in setting up an alliance of [[Christians|Christian]] nations to oppose the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the so-called [[Long Turkish War|Long War]]. He also successfully adjudicated in a bitter dispute between the [[Dominican Order|Dominicans]] and the [[Jesuits]] on the issue of [[efficacious grace]] and [[free will]]. In 1600 he presided over a [[jubilee (Christian)|jubilee]] which saw many pilgrimages to [[Rome]]. He presided over the trial and execution of [[Giordano Bruno]] and implementing strict measures against Jewish residents of the Papal States. He may have been the first pope to drink coffee. Clement VIII died at the age of 69 in 1605 and his remains now rest in the Rome city church of [[Santa Maria Maggiore]]. ==Early life== He was from a [[Florence|Florentine]] family, and followed his father as a [[canon law]]yer, becoming an [[Auditor (ecclesiastical)|Auditor]] (judge) of the [[Roman Rota]], the highest [[ecclesiastical court]] constituted by the [[Holy See]].<ref>''See'' [[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]], ap. con. ''Pastor Bonus'' art. 121, 80 Acta Apostolicae Sedis 841 (1988) (noting that the [[Apostolic Signatura]] is the supreme tribunal).</ref> He was only ordained as a priest on 31 December 1580 at the age of 45 and became pope on 2 February 1592 when he was not yet 56. He was an effective, if sometimes rigorous, administrator. ==Cardinal== [[File:Louis de Caulery - Vue de la place Saint-Pierre à Rome lors de l'élection du Pape Clément VIII en 1592 - PPP4833 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.jpg|thumb|''Election of Pope Clement VIII in 1592'', by [[Louis de Caullery]], [[Petit Palais]] (Paris)]] He was made [[Cardinal-Priest]] of [[S. Pancrazio]] in 1585 by [[Pope Sixtus V]], who named him [[Apostolic Penitentiary|major penitentiary]] in January 1586 and in 1588 sent him as legate in [[Poland]]. He placed himself under the spiritual direction of the reformer [[Philip Neri|Saint Philip Neri]], who for thirty years was his confessor. Aldobrandini won the gratitude of the [[Habsburg]]s by his [[Treaty of Bytom and Będzin|successful diplomatic efforts]] in Poland to obtain the release of the imprisoned [[Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria|Archduke Maximilian]], the defeated claimant to the Polish throne.<ref name="Loughlin">{{Catholic|title=Pope Clement VIII|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04027a.htm|last=Loughlin|first=James|volume=4|year=1908|access-date=3 September 2014|inline=1}}</ref> After the death of [[Pope Innocent IX]] (1591), [[Papal conclave, 1592|another stormy conclave]] ensued, in which a determined minority of Italian Cardinals were unwilling to be dictated to by [[Philip II of Spain]]. Known to be very intelligent, disciplined, and in tune with the inner workings of the Church,<ref>{{cite web| url = https://baroque.trinity.duke.edu/items/show/404| title = "Pope Clement VIII," Italian Baroque Art, Duke University}}</ref> Cardinal Aldobrandini was elected on 30 January 1592, as a portent of more balanced and liberal Papal policy in European affairs. He took the non-politicised name Clement VIII. He proved to be an able Pope, with an unlimited capacity for work, and a lawyer's eye for detail. He was a wise statesman, the general object of whose policy was to free the Papacy from its dependence upon [[Spain]].<ref name=Loughlin/> ==Ecclesiastical matters== === Clementine Vulgate === {{Main|Sixto-Clementine Vulgate}}{{See also|Sixtine Vulgate|Nova Vulgata}} In November 1592, he published the Clementine Vulgate.<ref name="Metzger">{{Cite book|title=The Early Versions of the New Testament|last=Metzger|first=Bruce M.|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1977|location=Oxford|pages=349|author-link=Bruce M. Metzger}}</ref> It was issued with the Bull ''[http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/index.html#constitutio Cum Sacrorum]'' (9 November 1592)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/index.html#constitutio|title=Vulgata Clementina|website=vulsearch.sourceforge.net|access-date=2019-09-17}}</ref> which asserted that every subsequent edition must be assimilated to this one, that no word of the text could be changed, and that not even variant readings could be printed in the margin.<ref name="Scrivener65">{{Cite book|title=A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament|last=Scrivener|first=Frederick Henry Ambrose|author2=Edward Miller|publisher=[[George Bell & Sons]]|year=1894|edition=4|volume=2|location=London|page=65|author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|title-link=A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament}}</ref> This new official version of the Vulgate, known as the Clementine Vulgate''<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reformationofbib0000peli|url-access=registration|title=The reformation of the Bible, the Bible of the Reformation|last=Pelikan|first=Jaroslav Jan|date=1996|publisher=Yale University Press|others=Dallas : Bridwell Library ; Internet Archive|location=New Haven|pages=[https://archive.org/details/reformationofbib0000peli/page/14 14], 98|chapter=1 : Sacred Philology ; Catalog of Exhibition [Item 1.14]|isbn=9780300066678|author-link=Jaroslav Pelikan}}</ref> ''or Sixto-Clementine Vulgate'',<ref name=":8" /><ref name="gerace225">{{Cite journal|last=Gerace|first=Antonio|date=2016|title=Francis Lucas 'of Bruges' and Textual Criticism of the Vulgate before and after the Sixto-Clementine (1592)|url=https://limo.libis.be/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=LIRIAS1883326&context=L&vid=Lirias&search_scope=Lirias&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&fromSitemap=1|journal=Journal of Early Modern Christianity |volume=3|issue=2|pages=201–237 |doi=10.1515/jemc-2016-0008|s2cid=193547960|via=[[KULeuven]]}}</ref>'' became and remained the official Bible of the [[Catholic Church]] until the ''[[Nova Vulgata]]'' replaced it in 1979.''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CXQqCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 |title=The Latin New Testament: A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts|last=Houghton|first=H. A. G.|date=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198744733|pages=132–133|language=en}}</ref>'' ===''De Auxiliis'' controversy=== In 1597, he established the [[Congregatio de Auxiliis]] which was to settle the theological controversy between the [[Dominican Order]] and the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] concerning the respective role of [[efficacious grace]] and [[free will]]. Although the debate tended toward a condemnation of [[Molinism]]'s insistence on free will to the detriment of efficacious grace, the important influence of the Jesuit Order&nbsp;— among other considerations&nbsp;— which, beside important political and theological power in Europe, had also various missions abroad ([[Jesuit Reductions|Misiones Jesuiticas]] in South America, [[Jesuit China missions|missions in China]], etc.), led the Pope to abstain from an official condemnation of the Jesuits. In 1611 and again in 1625 a decree prohibited any discussion of the matter, although it was often informally avoided by the publication of commentaries on [[Thomas Aquinas]]. ===Jubilee of 1600=== During the [[jubilee (Christian)|jubilee]] of 1600, three million pilgrims visited the holy places. The [[Synod of Brest]] was held 1595 in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], by which a great part of the [[Ruthenia]]n clergy and people were reunited to Rome.<ref name=Loughlin/> ===Canonisations and beatifications=== Clement VIII [[canonised]] [[Hyacinth of Poland|Hyacinth]] (17 April 1594), [[Julian of Cuenca]] (18 October 1594), and [[Raymond of Peñafort]] (1601). He beatified 205 individuals, 200 of them being group martyrs; notable individuals he named as Blessed included [[Carlo Borromeo]]. ===Consistories=== {{main|Cardinals created by Clement VIII}} The pope created 53 cardinals in six consistories during his pontificate; he named his two nephews [[Pietro Aldobrandini|Pietro]] and [[Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini|Cinzio Passeri]] as cardinals. Notable cardinals named during his reign included [[Pope Paul V|Camillo Borghese]] (his successor Pope Paul V) as well as the noted theologians [[Robert Bellarmine|Roberto Bellarmino]] and [[Caesar Baronius|Cesare Baronio]]. ==Foreign relations== ===Relations with France and Spain=== [[File:Portrait of Pope Clement VIII Aldobrandini (by Jacopo Ligozzi) - The J. Paul Getty Museum.jpg|thumb|Portrait mosaic by [[Jacopo Ligozzi]]<br /><small>({{circa|1601}}, [[J. Paul Getty Museum]])</small>]] The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of [[Henry IV of France]] (1589–1610), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal [[Arnaud d'Ossat]], that resolved the complicated situation in France. Henry embraced Catholicism on 25 July 1593. After a pause to assess Henry IV's sincerity, Clement VIII braved Spanish displeasure, and in the autumn of 1595 he solemnly absolved Henry IV, thus putting an end to the thirty years' religious war in [[France]].<ref name=Loughlin/> Henry IV's friendship was of essential importance to the papacy two years later, when [[Alfonso II d'Este|Alfonso II]], [[Ferrara|Duke of Ferrara]], died childless (27 October 1597), and the pope resolved to attach the stronghold of the [[House of Este|Este]] family to the states of the Church. Though Spain and the [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Rudolf II]] encouraged Alfonso II's illegitimate cousin, [[Cesare d'Este]], to withstand the pope, they were deterred from giving him any material aid by Henry IV's threats, and a papal army entered Ferrara almost unopposed.<ref name=Loughlin/> In 1598 Clement VIII won more credit for the papacy by bringing about a definite treaty of peace between Spain and France in the [[Peace of Vervins]],<ref name=Loughlin/> which put an end to their long contest; he negotiated peace between France and [[Savoy]] as well. ===Long War=== {{main|Holy League of Pope Clement VIII|Long Turkish War}} In 1594, Clement VIII initiated an alliance of Christian European powers to take part in the war with the Ottoman Empire, fought mainly in [[Ottoman Hungary|Hungary]], which would become known as the "[[Long Turkish War]]" and continue past Clement's own lifetime. Facilitated by the pope, a treaty of alliance was signed in [[Prague]] by [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Rudolf II]] and [[Sigismund Báthory]] of Transylvania. [[Aron Vodă]] of [[Moldavia]] and [[Michael the Brave]] of Wallachia joined the alliance later that year. Clement VIII himself lent the Emperor valuable assistance in men and money.<ref name=Loughlin/> ==Internal policies== ===Law enforcement=== Clement VIII was as vigorous as [[Pope Sixtus V]] (1585–90) in crushing banditry in the papal provinces of Umbria and the Marche and in punishing the lawlessness of the Roman nobility.<ref name=Loughlin/> Upon his ascension to the papal throne in 1592, he immediately had several noble troublemakers put to death. These included most famously Troio Savelli, scion of a powerful ancient Roman family, and the youthful and noble [[Beatrice Cenci]], who had murdered her father&nbsp;– probably as a consequence of his repeated abuses. The latter case prompted many requests of clemency&nbsp;– rejected by the Pope, who passed the confiscated Cenci property to his own family. Clement's strict ways also concerned philosophical and religious matters. In 1599 he had the Italian miller [[Menocchio]]&nbsp;– who had formed the belief that God was not eternal but had Himself once been created out of chaos&nbsp;– tried by the Inquisition and burnt at the stake. A more famous case was the trial for [[heresy]] of [[Giordano Bruno]], who was [[burned at the stake]] in 1600. Pope Clement VIII participated personally in the final phases of the trial, inviting the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinals]] in charge of the case to proceed with the verdict. ===Anti-Jewish measures=== Clement VIII tightened measures against the Jewish inhabitants of his territories. In 1592, the [[papal bull]] ''[[Cum saepe accidere]]'' forbade the Jewish community of the [[Comtat Venaissin]] of [[Avignon]], a papal enclave, to sell new goods, putting them at an economic disadvantage. In 1593, the bull ''[[Caeca et Obdurata]]'' reiterated [[Pope Pius V]]'s decree of 1569 which banned Jews from living in the Papal states outside the cities of Rome, [[Ancona]], and Avignon. The main effect of the bull was to evict Jews who had returned to areas of the Papal States (mainly [[Umbria]]) after 1586 (following their expulsion in 1569) and to expel Jewish communities from cities like [[Bologna]] (which had been incorporated under papal dominion since 1569).<ref name="foa">{{cite book |last1=Foa |first1=Anna |last2=Grover |first2=Andrea |year=2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBchbFySf-UC&pg=PA117 |title=The Jews of Europe After the Black Death |publisher=University of California Press |page=117 |isbn=978-0520087651 }}</ref> The bull also alleged that Jews in the Papal States had engaged in [[usury]] and exploited the hospitality of Clement VIII's predecessors "who, in order to lead them from their darkness to knowledge of the true faith, deemed it opportune to use the clemency of Christian piety towards them" (alluding to ''Christiana pietas'').<ref name="frag">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nh4DG4AsTuUC&pg=PA182 |pages=182–183 |title=Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy |isbn=9780521661720 |last1=Fragnito |first1=Gigliola |last2=Mozzarelli |first2=Cesare |last3=Oresko |first3=Robert |date=2001-09-06 }}</ref> With the bull ''Cum Hebraeorum malitia'' a few days later, Clement VIII also forbade the reading of the [[Talmud]].<ref>S. Wendehorst, "Katholische Kirche und Juden in der Frühen Neuzeit" 1.3 "Zensur des Talmud", following Willchad Paul Eckert, "Catholizmus zwischen 1580 und 1848" in Karl Heinrich Rengstorf and Siegfried Kortzfleisch, eds. ''Kirche und Sinagoge'' II (Stuttgart, 1970) p. 232.</ref> ==Later life and death== [[Image:Clement VIII SM Maggiore.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Statue of Clement VIII in the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]]]] Clement VIII was afflicted by [[gout]], using a wheelchair by the late 1590s, and was forced to spend much of his later life immobilized in bed. He suddenly became ill on 10 February 1605 and his condition rapidly deteriorated over the next few weeks. He died on 3 March 1605 around midnight, leaving a reputation for prudence, munificence, ruthlessness and capacity for business. Clement was buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica]], and later [[Pope Paul V]] (1605–21) had a mausoleum built for him in the Borghese Chapel of [[Santa Maria Maggiore]], where his remains were transferred in 1646. His reign is especially distinguished by the number and beauty of his medals. Clement VIII founded the [[Collegio Clementino]] for the education of the sons of the richer classes, and augmented the number of national colleges in Rome by opening the [[Collegio Scozzese]] for the training of missionaries to [[Scotland]].<ref name=Loughlin/> [[File:Page from the travel journal of Heinrich Schickhardt, showing Pope Clement VIII's wheelchair..png|thumb|288x288px|Page from the travel journal of Heinrick Schickhardt, showing Pope Clement VIII's wheelchair.]] ==Coffee== {{See also|History of coffee}} [[Coffee]] aficionados often claim that the spread of its popularity among Catholics is due to Pope Clement VIII's influence. Responding to opposition to coffee as "Satan's drink",<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ukers|first=William H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkftDQAAQBAJ&q=coffee+beverage+of+the+devil&pg=PT24|title=All about Coffee: A History of Coffee from the Classic Tribute to the World's Most Beloved Beverage|date=2012|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781440556326|language=en}}</ref> with the pope's advisers asking him to denounce the beverage. However, upon tasting coffee, Pope Clement VIII declared: "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/01/10/144988133/drink-coffee-off-with-your-head| title = Cole, Adam. "Drink Coffee? Off With Your Head!", ''Salt'', NPR, January 17, 2012| website = NPR| date = 17 January 2012| last1 = Cole| first1 = Adam}}</ref> Clement allegedly blessed the bean because it appeared better for the people than alcoholic beverages.<ref>[http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/coffee.jsp Wallin, Nils-Bertil. "Coffee: A Long Way From Ethiopia", ''Yale Global'', November 5, 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401222223/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/coffee.jsp |date=April 1, 2016 }}</ref> The year often cited is 1600. It is not clear whether this is a true story, but it may have been found amusing at the time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Coffee Facts and Statistics|url=http://www.professorshouse.com/food-beverage/beverages/coffee-facts-statistics.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601194012/http://www.professorshouse.com/food-beverage/beverages/coffee-facts-statistics.aspx|archive-date=2010-06-01|access-date=2010-06-08}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Giovanni Aldobrandini]], his older brother, who was a cardinal * [[Sixto-Clementine Vulgate]] * [[Cardinals created by Clement VIII]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Wikiquote}} {{commons category|Clemens VIII}} * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Clement/Clement VIII (Pope)|display=Clement s.v. Clement VIII.|volume=6|page=486|first=Theodore Freylinghuysen|last=Collier}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20020419235126/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3543/holysee.htm Mons. 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