... , and England. Pope Pinus II entered the Council of Basel so that he could help to protect others against the injustice of Pope Eugenius IV. Pope Sixtus IV, a.k.a. Pope sixty-four, studied philosophy and theology in the University of Pavia and was made the Minister General of the Franciscan order only ... the most corrupt popes of the Renaissance, studied law at Bologna and was made both a bishop and cardinal as an act of nepotism by his uncle. Pope Julius II, a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, was educated with the Franciscans. Girolamo Savonarola was a priest and a ruler of Florence, and was ...

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