Tyrannical Popes: Leo X Pt. 2
After an ascendant rise to the papacy, Pope Leo X began draining the massive treasury left by his predecessor.
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Show Notes
After an ascendant rise to the papacy, Pope Leo X began draining the massive treasury left by his predecessor. The nonstop feasting and over-the-top festivities were partly strategic, mostly indulgent, and at the root of a controversy that would produce the sale of indulgences, Luther’s 95 Theses… and Leo’s suspicious death. This episode first aired on Dictators. New episodes every Tuesday.
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