SIXTUS V: (1521-1590) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1585-90. Sixtus V is credited with crucial ...

SIXTUS V: (1521-1590) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1585-90. Sixtus V is credited with crucial important changes and works during his short term Papacy, leading administration and financial reforms to restore the Papal States solvency, and also completing the Saint Peter´s dome and multiple huge urban reforms in Rome. Sixtus V excommunicated both Elizabeth I of England and Henry IV of France. Rare L.S., `Come fr[at]ello a servirle F.Felice Card. De Montalto´, one page, 4to, Rome, 12th July 1581, to Prior of S. Michele in Fano, in Italian. Sixtus informs his correspondent that he has been able to arrange an audience with Pope Gregory XIII for the town delegates. Less than four years later, Cardinal Montalto would succeed as Pope his political enemy Gregory XIII. With blank address leaf, partially clipped, bearing a paper seal affixed in good condition. Folded, with light foxing and very small ink erosions to text, otherwise G £1500-2000