In time for the 1475 Holy Year, Sixtus IV – a worldly, power-player pope built the Rome's first new bridge for more than a thousand years.
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The sentence is incorrectly punctuated and hard to read. It should be like this: In time for the 1475 Holy Year, Sixtus IV – a worldly, power-player pope – built the Rome's first new bridge for more than a thousand years. In this case "power-player" probably means someone who wields power and influence over important political affairs.
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The sentence is incorrectly punctuated and hard to read. It should be like this:
In time for the 1475 Holy Year, Sixtus IV – a worldly, power-player pope – built the Rome's first new bridge for more than a thousand years.
In this case "power-player" probably means someone who wields power and influence over important political affairs.