Note 2
Chapter XI · CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
Pope Leo X was the Cardinal de’ Medici.
…nd the barons are compelled to support them, and thus from the ambitions of prelates arise disorders and tumults among the barons. For these reasons his Holiness Pope Leo[2] found the pontificate most powerful, and it is to be hoped that, if others made it great in arms, he will make it still greater and more venerated by his goodness and infinite other virtues.
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