Urban VIII

Maffeo Virginio Romolo Barberini · 6 Aug 1623 – 29 Jul 1644 · 21 yrs · died

Put Galileo on trial. Also built most of what people photograph in Rome.

Did

Commissioned Bernini's baldachin in St. Peter's.
Consecrated the new St. Peter's in 1626.

Didn't

Let Galileo's Dialogue stand: the 1633 trial ended with abjuration and house arrest.
Stay solvent: the War of Castro bankrupted the treasury.

From the record

Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts, commissioning works from artists like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and a reformer of Church missions. His papacy also covered 21 years of the Thirty Years' War.

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