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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XVI
  • This overstates Propaganda Fide’s remit. Its jurisdiction was not simply ‘outside the Spanish Empire’: sources on Catholic missionary administration say it operated outside the spheres of both Spain and Portugal, whose crowns retained patronage rights over many missions.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 12:08 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States
  • Those dates are wrong. Standard references place the Avignon Papacy from 1309 to 1377, with Gregory XI returning to Rome in January 1377.
  • The Papal States had more than three universities in the mid-19th century. Macerata, for example, was a papal/state university in this period with four faculties.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 11:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax
  • The U.S. did not eradicate New World screwworm in 1982. USDA sources state it was eradicated from the United States in 1966, with a later Florida Keys outbreak eliminated in 2017.
  • This distribution statement is outdated. Official U.S. sources say the outbreak has moved north through Central America and Mexico, and USDA confirmed U.S. detections in Texas in June 2026.
  • This skips the documented 2016–2017 Florida outbreak. U.S. agencies say the most recent U.S. outbreak before 2026 occurred in Florida in 2016–2017.
  • This is outdated. By 2026, USDA said screwworm had already moved north through Central America and Mexico, and U.S. response had shifted to defending the U.S.-Mexico border and responding to U.S. cases.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 11:19 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal-nephew
  • This date is too early. Popes continued elevating relatives to the cardinalate after 1689, including Romualdo Braschi-Onesti in 1786 and Leo XIII's brother Giuseppe Pecci in 1879.
  • The name is misspelled here. Pius VI's nephew was Romualdo Braschi-Onesti, not "Romoaldo" Braschi-Onesti.
  • 1692 did not end the broader practice of making papal relatives cardinals. Innocent XII's bull restricted it, but later popes still elevated relatives such as Romualdo Braschi-Onesti and Giuseppe Pecci.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 11:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Darling_Slave
  • Lando Buzzanca's character is Demetrio Cultrera; "car dealership" is not part of the credited role name.
  • Catherine Spaak's credited role is Rosalba Giordano; "of Giordano tuna enterprise" is not part of the character name.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia
  • This is incorrect: Cesenatico’s canal port predates Leonardo by about two centuries, and sources say Leonardo surveyed the port in 1502 rather than building a canal from Cesena to it.
  • This is wrong: after leaving Cesare Borgia’s service, Leonardo found multiple Italian patrons, including the Republic of Florence, Charles d’Amboise in Milan, and Giuliano de’ Medici in Rome.
  • This is incorrect: Pope Innocent VIII, Alexander VI’s immediate predecessor, had acknowledged illegitimate children and openly favored them before Alexander VI became pope.
  • This is anachronistic and inaccurate: Cesare Borgia was appointed bishop of Pamplona in 1491, but the archdiocese of Pamplona was not created until 1956 and Tudela was not definitively united with it until 1984.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulia_Farnese
  • The article conflates the betrothal contract with the wedding. Sources indicate the marriage contract was arranged in May 1489, while the actual wedding took place the following year, on 9 May 1490.
  • Biographical sources place her death in her own house in the Arenula district, adjacent to Alessandro Farnese’s palace, not in a residence belonging to Alessandro.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:43 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannozza_dei_Cattanei
  • The article's death date is off by two days. Credible sources, including a transcription of Vannozza's funerary inscription, give her death as 26 November 1518, not 24 November 1518.
  • This misstates when Rodrigo Borgia acknowledged the children. Reliable sources say he openly claimed the four children he had with Vannozza before he became pope in 1492.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Carlini
  • This film was not released in 1942. Credible film databases list *Fratello ladro* as a 1971/1972 film directed by Pino Tosini.
  • The year is wrong. Authoritative Italian film databases list *La Gioconda* with Paolo Carlini as a 1953 film, not a 1958 one.
  • The year is incorrect. Italian film databases identify *Amore all'italiana* (*Love Italian Style*) as a 1966 film, not a 1965 one.
  • The character designation is wrong. Film databases identify Carlini's role in *La Gioconda* as Enzo Grimaldo, prince of **Santa Fiora**, not Santa Flora.
  • This role attribution is wrong. In *Come cani arrabbiati* (*Like Rabid Dogs*), Paolo Carlini played Commissioner Muzi, not Enrico Ardenghi.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VIII
  • This dates the end of the papal-Neapolitan conflict too late. Innocent VIII and Ferrante made peace in August 1486, and a further settlement was ratified in 1492.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI
  • Rodrigo Borgia did not take over Valencia in 1455. Church reference works place his appointment in Valencia in 1458, not 1455.
  • This blanket statement is incorrect. At least one of Rodrigo Borgia’s children, Pedro Luis, was legitimized in 1481, before Rodrigo became pope in 1492.
  • The closing date is wrong. Vatican sources say the Holy Door for the 1500 Jubilee was closed on Epiphany, 6 January 1501, not on Christmas Day 1500.
  • This overstates Rodrigo Borgia’s role. Sources say Sixtus IV himself issued the dispensation bull in December 1471, and Rodrigo Borgia was sent to carry it to Spain.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII
  • In 1623 Barberini was camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals, not camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocenzo_Ciocchi_Del_Monte
  • This dates the scandal too early. Julius III’s papacy began in 1550, so the Innocenzo scandal belongs to the mid-16th century, not the early 16th century.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:39 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_X
  • The Pamphilj family was in Rome well before Innocent IX; sources place its move in the late 15th century and connect its rise to Innocent VIII, not Innocent IX.
  • Pamphilj was appointed nuncio to Naples in 1621, not 1623.
  • Francesco Barberini was sent as papal legate, not as nuncio.
  • Pamphilj’s degree was from the University of Rome La Sapienza, not the Collegio Romano.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:38 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes
  • This gets Gregory the Great’s family relationship to Felix III wrong. Gregory’s father was Gordianus, and Felix III is commonly identified as Gregory’s great-great-grandfather, not his maternal grandfather.
  • This misidentifies Eleutherius’s relationship to Anastasius Bibliothecarius. Reference works describe Anastasius as a nephew of Bishop Arsenius and Eleutherius as Arsenius’s son or a near relative, not Anastasius’s brother.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_V
  • The Accademia dei Lincei was not a papal academy in 1611. It was a private academy founded by Federico Cesi in 1603 and only became a pontifical academy in 1847.
  • This date is wrong. Albert of Louvain is listed as canonized on 9 August 1613, and Paul V had died on 28 January 1621, months before 9 August 1621.
  • This gets the model backwards. Bellarmine’s 1616 certificate dealt with Copernicanism/heliocentrism; historians summarize it as permitting Copernican ideas only as a hypothesis, not geocentrism as a theoretical device.
  • Paul V funded major work on St. Peter’s, especially the facade, but the basilica itself was not completed until 1626, after his death.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VIII
  • Clement VIII was elected pope on January 30, 1592, not February 2. February 2, 1592 was the date of his episcopal consecration.
  • Clement VIII did not successfully settle the De Auxiliis dispute. He oversaw the proceedings, but no final doctrinal decision was issued, and the controversy was later left unresolved under Paul V.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VII
  • The transfer to Imola was on 13 May 1653, not 13 May 1652.
  • Alexander VII’s introductory bull for his Index was issued in 1664, not 1592.
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_XI
  • This office title is incorrect. Standard biographies describe Odescalchi as commissary at Ancona, or as a tax commissioner in the March of Ancona/Marca, not as a "commissary of the Marco di Roma."
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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XI
  • Leo XI was created cardinal by Pope Gregory XIII, not by Sixtus V. Sixtus V did not become pope until April 24, 1585.
  • This wording is chronologically wrong: Pope Pius V died on May 1, 1572, so Medici could not have served ‘to Pope Pius V’ through 1584.
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