ocr: Click on one of the Exit bookmarks to enter the dijjerent paths CMset iTatienn Sixtus IV To: scroll the text - Sixtus IV (1471-1484) 5 Francesco Della Rovere, born in Savona in 1414, was a Franciscan friar who became Minister General a ofthe order and Subtle Theologian. He was unexpectedly elected to E the Papal Chair by the conclave of 1471.. Austere in his private life, but without too many scruples in his choice ofj political means, he was the first is a series ofl Popes E who would greatly secularize the To call papacy. He twice tried to start up a crusade against the Turks without up a su ...