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Pope Urban VIII Maffeo Barberini was born on April 5, 1568 in Florence, Italy. He was raised by a wealthy family. His father Antonio Barberini died when Maffeo was three years old, his mother Camilla Barbadoro, brought him to Rome at an early age. Urban was educated by the “Jesuits” who are also known as the Society of Jesus. It is a group of individuals that follow the Catholic Church. On August 6, 1623, after the death of Pope Gregory XV he was chosen as Gregory’s successor. Then they gave him the name Pope Urban VIII. He was an active pope who carried a massive amount of reforms of the Church. One of his less successful was a reform of the Roman Catholic Church. Urban was known do to his excellence and impressive speaking skills. His successful military involvement was aimed less it restored Catholicism in Europe. By restoring Catholicism it gave him independence in Italy. Urban was a great writer of Latin verse. Urban had his own collection of phrases from different scriptures, and has his originals as well. A consequence of these military and artistic goals made a huge increase in papal debt. Urban’s death was on July 29, 1644 it was do to distress as a result of the Wars of Castro. It was in the mid- 17th century in Castro, Italy where the destruction began. Papal politics of the 17th century were complicated, with constantly sending military and political unions around the world of Catholicism. Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma was controlling Castro and was a part of the destruction in Castro. Urban excommunicated Odoardo and canceled his plans. Odoardo created a military group of his own. His group were extremely close to threaten Rome. Urban did not allow anything to go wrong he excommunicated anyone who helped Odoardo. Odoardo said that this was not because of the papacy, but it was about the Barberini family. Also Urban died a few months after the peace settlement was agreed to. On September 15 Innocent X was the next one to take his place.