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<p>64.12.116.209: </p> <hr /> <div>{{stub}}<br /> {{Faction Infobox<br /> |image = 442px-Emblem of the Papacy SE svg.png<br /> |imgdesc = <br /> |game = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''<br /> |religion = Roman Catholic<br /> |nationality = Italian<br /> |location = [[Rome]]<br /> |targets = [[Pope Alexander VI]] (Rodrigo Borgia)<br /> }}<br /> <br /> The '''Papacy''' is the office of the [[wikipedia:pope|pope]]. Besides its religious role as the official Catholic order, it acted as a government ruling over a [[wikipedia:Papal States|large part]] of Italy (of which only remains today the [[wikipedia:Vatican City|Vatican]] city-state enclaved in [[Rome]]). Its capital was Rome.<br /> <br /> Historically, the Papacy has been the subject of urban legend and ancient controversy. Tales of secret 'behind-the-scenes' power-brokers have caught the attention of modern fiction, with Dan Brown's ''The DaVinci Code'' weaving the Catholic Church and the Papacy into a story that casts them as conspirators attempting to cover up a secret so powerful that it risks destroying Christianity as a whole. Brown's other work, ''Angels and Demons'', sheds light on the Papacy's history of intolerance toward cultural, philsophical, or scientific change, and how such a policy comes back to haunt them with death and murder throughout Rome itself.<br /> <br /> While the Pope is, by tradition, always male, stories have been told of at least one woman that was elected to the position; nicknamed 'Pope Joan', written accounts consider her to be a fair-minded and well-liked Pope. However, her secret was revealed in an unspecified way; some versions of the story say that she gave birth on a crowded street during a Papal procession. Other more 'generous' stories say that she lived comfortably, well into her later years. Whether she lived or died is largely irrelevant, however -- to this day, historians are divided on whether she even existed in the first place.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Papacy was, in the centuries before Italy's unification as a single nation-state, the official government to which all other Italian cities answered. The Pope is no longer considered to be the Italian head of state, but is still recognized as a major player in world politics today.<br /> <br /> {{ACII}}<br /> [[Category:Factions]]</div>

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