Papae illitterati

sunt nonnulli papae Ecclesiae Romanae ab historicis illitterati habiti, inter quos sunt:
Zephyrinus (199–217); apud Sanctum Hippolytum Romanum: "Papa Zephyrinus fuit illitteratus" (Hippolytus, ed. Miller, p. 284).Christopher Wordsworth, A church history, vol. 1 (1887), p. 290. 
Hadrianus IV (1154–1159); apud George Washington Dean: "Adrian IV., the only English Pope, had been an illiterate servant in a monastery at Avignon."George Washington Dean, Lectures on the evidences of revealed religion (1890), p. 459.
Caelestinus V (1294); apud Maxwell Herbert Equitem: "On the commemoration day of S. Paul, Celestinus the Fifth was created Pope, who, albeit illiterate, was the priest and confessor of his predecessor."Maxwell Herbert, The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272–1346: Translated, with Notes (1913), p. 107, Textus apud archive.org.
Innocentius VI (1352–1362), de quo est scriptum "the new pope was so illiterate that he looked upon Petrarch as a magician, and this disfavor is supposed to have caused the poet's return to Italy.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The poets and poetry of Europe, with introduction and biographical notices (1871), p. 526.Cornelius Conway Felton, The poets and poetry of Europe: With introductions and biographical notices (1871), p. 525. 

False illitteratus habitus
Ludovicus von Pastor monstravit Iulium Papam II (1503–1513) non illitteratum fuisse, quamquam sic poetice ab Erasmo appellatum est.Association Amici Thomae Mori, Moreana (1971), p. 103.Philip C. Dust, Three renaissance pacifists: essays in the theories of Erasmus (1987), p. 129.

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