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Alexander Pope

English poet (1688–1744)

Not to be confused with Pope Alexander.

For other uses, see Alexander Pope (disambiguation).

Alexander Pope
Portrait by Michael Dahl, c. 1727
Born	(1688-05-21)21 May 1688 O.S. London, England
Died	30 May 1744(1744-05-30) (aged 56) Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Resting place	St Mary's Church, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Occupation	Poet, writer, translator
Genre	Poetry, satire, translation
Literary movement	Classicism, Augustan literature
Notable works	The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Criticism, his translation of Homer

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S.^[1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature,^[2] Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translations of Homer.

Pope is often quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having entered common parlance (e.g. "damning with faint praise" or "to err is human; to forgive, divine").

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Pope Alexander VI

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Stella Fletcher

• LAST REVIEWED: 23 August 2022
• LAST MODIFIED: 23 August 2017
• DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0357

Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church.

This website is omnivorous in its acquisition of information about all cardinals past and present, each of whom comes with a bibliography and some of whom merit a webography. Alexander’s personal entry has similar coverage of each of the cardinals he created, together with accounts of the five conclaves in which he participated.

Catholic Hierarchy.

Essentially a more flexible but less scholarly version of Eubel 1913 and the other tomes in the nine-volume Hierarchia catholica series. Information about Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander can be accessed via the “structured view” of dioceses, the list of deceased bishops (as “de Borja”), “events by year,” “consistories” (for the creation of cardinals), and “conclaves.”

Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España. 4 vols. Madrid: Instituto Enrique Flórez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1972–1975.

The entry on “Alejandro VI” (1: 36–39) is by the veteran Catalan historian of Borgia-centered Italo-Spanish relations, Miguel Batllori. It provides a good summary of his career, emphasizing the year