Editing Pope Paul II (section)

==Election==
{{Main|1464 papal conclave}}
Barbo was elected to succeed [[Pope Pius II]] by the [[accessus]] in the first ballot of the [[Papal conclave, 1464|papal conclave of 30 August 1464]]<ref>Pastor vol. IV, p. ii: "The populace assembled in front of the [[Apostolic Palace|Vatican]] received the news with joy." [[Acclamation]] of a new [[bishop of Rome]] by the people was a custom of the [[early church]] long in abeyance.</ref> with a majority of fourteen of the nineteen cardinals present. He owed his election in part to the dissatisfaction of some of the cardinals with the policy of his predecessor.<ref name=WeberAttribution>{{catholic|title=Pope Paul II}|inline=1|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11578a.htm|last=Weber|first=Nicholas|volume=11|year=1911|access-date=15 May 2020}}</ref>

Upon taking office, Paul II was to convene an [[ecumenical council]] within three years. But these terms of subscription were modified by Paul II at his own discretion, and this action lost him the confidence of the College of Cardinals. The justification for setting aside the [[conclave capitulation|capitulation]]s, seen to be under way by the Duke of Milan's ambassador as early as 21 September, lay in connecting any abridgement of the Pope's [[absolute monarchy]] in the [[Papal States]] with a consequent abridgement of his sole authority in spiritual matters.<ref>Pastor, vol. IV, p. 21.</ref> Almost from his coronation, Paul withdrew and became inaccessible: audiences were only granted at night and even good friends waited a fortnight to see him. His suspiciousness was widely attested.

Paul wore rouge in public.<ref name="D'Elia" />{{page needed|date=February 2020}} The story of Cardinal Ammanati that he meant to take the name Formosus II (meaning "handsome"), after [[Pope Formosus]],<ref>Pastor vol 14, p. 16: The chronicler N. della Tuccia says that for half a century no handsomer man had been seen in the Senate or the Church.</ref> but was persuaded not to, is more often repeated than the story that he was dissuaded from ''Marcus'', being Venetian and the Cardinal of [[San Marco]], because it was also the war-cry of Venice.<ref>Pastor, vol. IV, pp. 13, 15.</ref> He had a papal tiara made for his own use studded with "diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, topaz, large pearls, and every kind of precious gem".<ref name="D'Elia"/>{{page needed|date=February 2020}} He built the Palazzo San Marco (now the [[Palazzo Venezia]]) and lived there even as pope, amassing a great collection of art and antiquities.<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Walsh |title=The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History of Papal Elections |publisher=Gardners Books |year=2003 |isbn=9781853114977}}</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2020}}