Stock Photo - Pope Sixtus V 1585-90 by Bastiano Torrigiani (active after 1573-96) Italy, Rome, Gilded bronze, wood pedestal, painted and gilded. During his short rule, Sixtus V advanced the Counter Reformation both politically and intellectually, He threatened to excommunicate the future French king for flirting with Protestantism and founded a printing press at the Vatican.

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