Counter-Reformation pope
Paul IV
Active
1555
He persecuted conversos at Ancona, created Rome's ghetto, and expanded censorship of Jewish books.
What the sources say
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4 statements
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The boycott answered Paul IV's execution of two dozen conversos.
02
Paul IV's bull Cum nimis absurdum opened a new phase of Catholic pressure.
03
In 1555 roughly four thousand Roman Jews were confined beside the Tiber.
04
The 1595 expurgatory index required changes to 420 Hebrew works.