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CLEMENT XI . (Giovanni Francesco Albani), pope
pope
investiture rights in Sicily (1715), his interdict was treated with contempt. The prestige of the papacy had hardly been lower within two centuries. About 1702 the Jansenist controversy broke out afresh. Clement reaffirmed the infallibility of the pope, in matters of fact (1705), and, in 1713, issued the bull Unigenitus, condemning tot Jansenistic propositions extracted from the Moral Reflections of Pasquier Quesnel
bull by certain bishops led to a new party division and a further prolonging of the controversy (see JANSENISM
QUESNEL
pagan
March
For contemporary lives see Elci, The Present State of the Court of Rome, trans. from the Ital. (London, 17o6); Polidoro, De Vita et Reb. Gest. Clem. XI. (Urbino, 1727); Reboulet, Hist. de Clem. XI.. Pape (Avignon, 1752); Guarnacci, Vitae et res gest. Pontiff. Rom. (Rome, 1751); Sanding, Vitae Pontiff Rom. (Padua, 1739); Buder, Tome, u. Thaten Clementis XI. (Frankfort, 1720-1721). See also Clementis XI. Opera Omnia (Frankfort, 1729) ; the detailed " Studii sul pontificate di Clem. XI.," by Pometti in the Archiaio Bella R. Soc. romana di scoria patria, vols. 21, 22, 23 (1898-1909), and the extended bibliography in Hergenrother, Allg. Kirchengesch. (s88o), iii. 506. (T. F. C.) End of Article: CLEMENT XI If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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