Historic Papal politics : Platina’s Lives of the Popes TAGS: Catholic | church history | donations | fifteenth century | Funk | Incunabula | medieval | New College Library | Popes | rare books Bartolomeo Platina, (1421-1481) was a writer and member of the College of Abbreviators in Rome, a body of writers in the papal chancery who prepared the Pope’s bulls, briefs and …Continue reading →