The Friar and the Cipher by Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Bazelon Goldstone

Author:Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Bazelon Goldstone
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Science, Nonfiction, History
ISBN: 9780385515153
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2005-01-15T04:56:51+00:00

BY THE FALL OF 1268, Bacon's prospects for precipitating reform in the Church never seemed better. In the spring of that year, Frederick's grandson Conradin, “the last of the Hohenstaufens,” then fifteen, had come to Italy to raise an army to retake Sicily from Charles d'Anjou. In August he was defeated at the Battle of Tagliacozzo. Conradin escaped after the battle but was soon captured, and two months later, despite Clement's personal abhorrence, Charles had him publicly beheaded. Still, the papacy was secured against the invader, and Clement could finally turn his attention to internal reform.

Clement, with his keen mind, determination, and deft political skills, might have been one of the great popes, perhaps even rivaling Innocent III himself. But in November 1268, after less than four years in office, his ambitions unfulfilled, Clement died, and with him Roger Bacon's opportunity to blend scientific curiosity into theology died as well.

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