| ## A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation by Philip Hughes Vol. 3: 1274-1520 |

| ### CHAPTER 5: ‘FACILIS DESCENSUS. . .’ 1471-1517 |

| #### LEO X |

| #### #### The new pope was only thirty-seven, but a chronic invalid, operated on in the very conclave for a fistula ####  |

| #### 2. CHRISTIAN LIFE AND THOUGHT, 1471-1517 |

| #### #### Just one hundred years separate the beginning of Martin Luther's assault on the papacy from the election of Martin V at Constance, the first pope for forty years ####  |