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Leo X (1475-1521) (Giovanni de Medici) Pope, (1513-1521) led the church into debt with the building of St. Peters Basilica, military campaigns, and extravagance. Son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Excommunicated Martin Luther.
The Chevalier Artaud de Montour, The Lives and Times of the Popes, Vol. IV (New York: Catholic Publication Society of America, 1911) 224.
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