* Pope St. Pius V ( d. 1572 )

* 1504 – Pope Saint Pius V ( d. 1572 )

Pope Pius V ( 17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572 ), born Antonio Ghislieri ( from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O. P.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

He was succeeded by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ).

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

Clement X, on 24 November 1673, beatified nineteen Martyrs of Gorkum, taken prisoner at Gorcum, the Netherlands, and put to death in Brielle on 9 July 1572, in hatred of the Catholic faith, the primacy of the Pope, the Roman Church, and the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Pope Gregory XIII ( 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585 ), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope from 1572 to 1585.

Upon the death of Pope Pius V ( 1566 – 1572 ), the conclave chose Cardinal Boncompagni, who assumed the name of Gregory XIII in homage to the great reforming Pope, Gregory I ( 590 – 604 ), surnamed the Great.

After the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres of Huguenots in France in 1572, Pope Gregory celebrated a Te Deum mass.

Pope Pius V ( 1566 – 1572 ) sent him as papal nuncio to Venice in 1566 to further the papal alliance with Spain and Venice against the Turks, which ultimately resulted in the victory of Lepanto in 1571.

* January 17 – Pope Pius V ( d. 1572 )

Pope Pius V ( 1566 – 1572 ) is said to have recommended that pilgrims gather sand from the arena of the Colosseum to serve as a relic, on the grounds that it was impregnated with the blood of martyrs.

The Pope ordered a Te Deum to be sung as a special thanksgiving ( a practice continued for many years after ) and had a medal struck with the motto Ugonottorum strages 1572 showing an angel bearing a cross and sword next to slaughtered Protestants.

" The massacre was interpreted as an act of divine retribution ; Coligny was considered a threat to Christendom and thus Pope Gregory XIII designated 11 September 1572 as a joint commemoration of the Battle of Lepanto and the massacre of the Huguenots.

* The Gallery of Maps: topographical maps of the whole of Italy, painted on the walls by friar Ignazio Danti of Perugia, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 1585 ).

* Gian Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce ( 1572 – 1585 ), future Pope Innocent IX of Rome

There had already been a less formally instituted cardinal committee concerned with propaganda fide since the time of Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 1585 ), who were especially charged with promoting the union with Rome of the long-established eastern Christian communities: Slavs, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, and Abyssinians.

Francis Borgia ( 1510 – 1572 ), a great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI, did not follow his relatives.

This terrace is united to the next by the central Fountain of the Dragons, dominating the central perspective of the gardens, erected for a visit in 1572 of Pope Gregory XIII whose coat-of-arms features a dragon.

In the 15th century, Pope Boniface IX gave Blera to the Anguillara family, who owned it until 1572, apart from a short period from 1465 under direct Papal control.

In 1572, Pope Gregory XIII, at the insistence of Saint Charles Borromeo, the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, declared the Ursulines a religious order with enclosure under the rule of Augustine of Hippo.

During the pontificate of his political enemy Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ,) Cardinal Montalto, as he was generally called, lived in enforced retirement, occupied with the care of his property, the Villa Montalto, erected by Domenico Fontana close to his beloved church on the Esquiline Hill, overlooking the Baths of Diocletian.

* Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 )

* Gregory XIII ( pope 1572 – 1585 ), after whom the Gregorian calendar is named

In 1572 Pope Gregory XIII declared Hosius a member of the Congregatio Germania.

In 1572, Bogislaw XIII rebuild the ducal court in Renaissance style, and married Clare of Brunswick-Lüneburg who was later buried in Barth.

* 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect ( b. 1512 )

Galeazzo Alessi ( 1512 – December 30, 1572 ) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture.

* 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man ( b. c. 1523 )

* 1503 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian painter ( d. 1572 )

* November 17 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet ( d. 1572 )

Ganassa had performed in Paris in 1571 and 1572, and further transformations of the character occurred in France, where Arlecchino was performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Italian by Tristano Martinelli, Giovan Battista Andreini, and Angelo Costantini ( c. 1654 – 1729 ).

* December 12 – Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter ( b. c. 1572 )

The author of the Lettre de Pierre Charpentier ( 1572 ) was not only " a Protestant of sorts, and thus, apparently, writing with inside knowledge ", but also " an extreme apologist for the massacre ... in his view ... a well-merited punishment for years of civil disobedience secret sedition ..." A strand of Catholic writing, especially by Italian authors, broke from the official French line to applaud the massacre as precisely a brilliant stratagem, deliberately planned from various points beforehand.

* Angelo Bronzino ( Italian, 1503 – 1572 )

* Giovanni Dall ’ Agocchie ( 1572 ) ( Italian )

Agnolo di Cosimo ( November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572 ), usually known as Il Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino ( mistaken attempts also have been made in the past to assert his name was Agnolo Tori and even Angelo ( Agnolo ) Allori ), was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence.

* Cosimo Bartoli ( 1503 – 1572 ), Italian diplomat and humanist

Giovanni Picchi ( 1571 or 1572 – 17 May 1643 ) was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era.

Giulio Campi ( 1500 – 5 March 1572 ) was an Italian painter and architect.

* Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect ( died 1572 )

* Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence ( died 1572 )