Frasi di Papa Sisto V
Papa Sisto V
Data di nascita: 13. Dicembre 1520
Data di morte: 27. Agosto 1590
Sisto V, nato Felice Piergentile e a trent'anni Felice Peretti , fu il 227º papa della Chiesa cattolica dal 1585 alla morte; apparteneva all'ordine dei frati minori conventuali.
Frasi Papa Sisto V
„Allo stesso modo desideriamo che sia punito con la morte qualsiasi donna arrivata a tal punto di impudicizia da congiungersi carnalmente, sapendolo, con il padre, il di lui figlio o di lui fratelli, anche se regolarmente sposata con uno di essi.“
— Papa Sisto V
da Motu proprio sui casi di incesto nello Stato della Chiesa
„She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.“
— Pope Sixtus V
On Queen Elizabeth I of England, said to the Venetion ambassador in Rome in the autumn of 1585, reported in Walter Walsh, The Jesuits in Great Britain (1903), p. 111.
„While I live, every criminal must die.“
— Pope Sixtus V
Reported in Will and Ariel Durant, Age of Reason Begins: Volume 7 (1961), p. 240.
„It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.“
— Pope Sixtus V
On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Emil Reich, Woman Through the Ages: Volume 2 (1908), p. 38. Alternately reported without the phrase "each other" and ending with "would have ruled the whole world".
„What a valiant woman. She braves the two greatest kings by land and sea. If she were not a heretic she would be worth a whole world.“
— Pope Sixtus V
On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Colin Bingham, Men and Affairs: A Modern Miscellany (1967), p. 48.
