Of all the fifteenth-century popes, the one who most successfully fulfilled the Church’s mission to rebuild Rome—by refurbishing its courts, streets, bridges, water supply and churches, and by founding the Vatican Library—was

a) Sixtus IV.
b) Julius II.
c) Leo X.
d) Clement VII.


Answer: a

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