Sixtus IV. (b. 1414)

Sixtus IV., born near Savona, the son of a fisherman; became general of the Franciscans; succeeded Paul II. as Pope; was notorious for his nepotism; abetted Pazzi in his conspiracy against the Medici at Florence, but was a good administrator, and a man of liberal views; (b. 1414).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)