The Evilest Popes Who Ever Ruled | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:02:43 Pope Stephen VI (896–897) – The Cadaver Synod
00:08:48 Pope John XII (955–964)
00:15:48 Pope Benedict IX (1032–1048)
00:24:10 Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303)
00:31:32 Pope Urban VI (1378–1389)
00:40:43 Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503)
00:49:55 Pope Leo X (1513–1521)
00:58:25 Pope Clement VII (1523–1534)
01:09:49 Thoughts and Conclusion

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Sources and Further Reading

Chamberlin, E. R. (1969). The Bad Popes.

Liutprand of Cremona (c. 960). Antapodosis (“Retribution”).

Pope Victor III (c. 1085). Dialogues (Book III).

Dante Alighieri (1314). Inferno (from The Divine Comedy).

Burchard, Johann (c. 1500). Diary of Johann Burchard.

Guicciardini, Francesco (1561). The History of Italy.

Cellini, Benvenuto (1562). The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.

Gregorovius, Ferdinand (1894). History of Rome in the Middle Ages.

Duffy, Eamon (1997). Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes.

Norwich, John Julius (2011). Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy.


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