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Pope Sixtus V and the Peretti square |
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Pope Sixtus V and the Peretti square Copyright All rights reserved © By itravelinitaly.com travelers from Italy Photo by Baldassarri Giuseppe Visual Storytelling.
Piazza Peretti, Grottammare Alta, Grottammare, Riviera delle Palme, Province of Ascoli Piceno, AP, Marches, Italy
Felice Piergentile Peretti was born in Grottammare, a small fishing village in the southern Marche, then in the jurisdiction of Fermo
As Pope, he energetically rooted out corruption and lawlessness across Rome and launched a far-sighted rebuilding program that continues to provoke controversy, as it involved the destruction of antiquities.
Another curiosity that links Sixtus V to the Roman "vulgate": with his tax reform, not trusting the local officials, the pope recruited his trusted fellow-countrymen from the Marche to exercise the profession of the collector.