"Benedict XIV" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seventeenth century it declined under the influence of the Marini school; whose bad taste and labored and bombastic style, was unfortunately imitated in both France and Spain. In the eighteenth century, under the patronage of Benedict XIV, the Arcadian poets of the Marini school were banished from literature, and other and more brilliant writers arose, possessed of the true national feeling. Under Pope Pius VI, by whom he was liberally patronized, Quirico Visconti undertook his ...
— The Interdependence of Literature • Georgina Pell Curtis
... other dwells at Peniscola, in the kingdom of Valentia, and calls himself Clement VIII; the third dwells no man knows where, unless it be the Cardinal de Saint-Estienne and a few folk with him, and calls himself Pope Benedict XIV; the first, who is called Pope Martin, was elected at Constance by consent of all Christian nations; he who is called Clement was elected at Peniscola, after the death of Pope Benedict XIII, by three of his cardinals; the third who is called Pope Benedict ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France |
