... figures in the Renaissance include Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, Pope Nicholas V, Pope Pinus II, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Julius II, and Girolamo Savonarola. Martin Luther, a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk, was responsible, in part, for the Protestant Reformation. He asked the church to return to the teachings of ... 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 ...

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