Benedict XIV

Benedict XIV

noun
(Prospero Lambertini), 1675–1758, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1740–58; scholar and patron of the arts.
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benedict xiv

noun
pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758) 
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