Editing Pope Clement VIII (section)

==Later life and death==
[[Image:Clement VIII SM Maggiore.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Statue of Clement VIII in the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]]]]
Clement VIII was afflicted by [[gout]], using a wheelchair by the late 1590s, and was forced to spend much of his later life immobilized in bed. He suddenly became ill on 10 February 1605 and his condition rapidly deteriorated over the next few weeks. He died on 3 March 1605 around midnight,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum |first=John M. |last=Hunt |publisher=Brill |year=2016 |page=74}}</ref> leaving a reputation for prudence, munificence, ruthlessness and capacity for business. Clement was buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica]], and later [[Pope Paul V]] (1605–21) had a mausoleum built for him in the Borghese Chapel of [[Santa Maria Maggiore]], where his remains were transferred in 1646.

His reign is especially distinguished by the number and beauty of his medals. Clement VIII founded the [[Collegio Clementino]] for the education of the sons of the richer classes, and augmented the number of national colleges in Rome by opening the [[Collegio Scozzese]] for the training of missionaries to [[Scotland]].<ref name=Loughlin/>
[[File:Page from the travel journal of Heinrich Schickhardt, showing Pope Clement VIII's wheelchair..png|thumb|288x288px|Page from the travel journal of Heinrick Schickhardt, showing Pope Clement VIII's wheelchair.]]