Editing Pope Urban VIII (section)

===Death and legacy===
[[File:Giovanni Gonnelli, Busto di Urbano VIII.jpg|thumb|upright|Bust by [[Giovanni Gonnelli]]]]
[[File:Urbanus – Constitutio contra astrologos iudiciarios, 1631 – BEIC 13346228.jpg|thumb|''Constitutio contra astrologos iudiciarios'', 1631]]

Urban VIII's death on 29 July 1644 is said to have been hastened by chagrin at the result of the [[Wars of Castro]]. Because of the costs incurred by the city of Rome to finance this war, Urban VIII became immensely unpopular with his subjects.

On his death, the bust of Urban VIII that lay beside the [[Palace of the Conservators]] on the [[Capitoline Hill]] was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of the late pope belonging to the [[Jesuits]] from a similar fate.<ref>Ernesta Chinazzi, Sede Vacante per la morte del Papa Urbano VIII Barberini e conclave di Innocenzo X Pamfili, Rome, 1904, 13.</ref>

Following his death, international and domestic machinations resulted in the papal conclave not electing Cardinal [[Giulio Cesare Sacchetti]], who was closely associated with some members of the Barberini family. Instead, it elected Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphili, who took the name of [[Pope Innocent X|Innocent X]], as his successor at the [[papal conclave, 1644|papal conclave of 1644]].