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Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. Alexander VII disliked the business of state, preferring literature and philosophy; a collection of his Latin poems appeared at Paris in 1656 under the title Philomathi Labores Juveniles. He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets.
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04/07/1655-Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
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Celio Piccolomini
...man of the Italian Church, created cardinal by Pope Alexander VII at the Consistory of 14 January 1664. He was elected...
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...on a recognition of Bulle Unigenitus and the form of Alexander VII. was. A self-worded statement the three bishops...
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