A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH |
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 |