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Illiterate popes

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Several popes are regarded by historians as illiterate, including:

Wrongly regarded as illiterate

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Ludwig von Pastor has shown that Pope Julius II (1503–1513) was not illiterate, although he is poetically referred to as such by Desiderius Erasmus.[5][6]

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  1. ^ Refutation of All Heresies, collected in Emmanuel Miller (1851). Origenis Philosophumena. p. 284.
  2. ^ Christopher Wordsworth (1887). Church History. Vol. 1. p. 290.
  3. ^ George Washington Dean (1890). Lectures on the Evidences of Revealed Religion. New York: James Pott & Co. p. 459.
  4. ^ Herbert Maxwell (1913). The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272–1346: Translated, with Notes. Glasgow: University Press. p. 107.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Association Amici Thomae Mori. 1971. Moreana. p. 103.
  6. ^ Philip C. Dust. 1987. Three Renaissance Pacifists: Essays in the Theories of Erasmus. p. 129.