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Pietro Carnesecchi ( December 24, 1508 - October 1, 1567) was an Italian humanist. He was the son of a Florentine merchant, who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de' Medici as Pope Clement VII, rapidly rose to high office at the papal court.He came into touch with the new learning at the house of his maternal uncle, Cardinal Bernardo Dovizzi, in Rome. At the age of twenty-five he held several rich livings, had been notary and protonotary to the Curia, and was first secretary to the pope, in which capacity he conducted the correspondence with the nuncios (among them Pier Paolo Bergerio in Germany) and a host of other duties.
By his conduct at the conference with Francis I of France at Marseille he won the favour of Catherine de Medici and other influential personages at the French court, who in later days befriended him. He made the acquaintance of the Spanish reformer Juan de Valdés at Rome, and got to know him as a theologian at NaplesAlternate uses: See Naples (disambiguation Naples ( Italian Napoli Neapolitan Napule from Greek Neapolis/) is the largest town in southern Italy, capital of the region of Campania. The city has a population of about 1 million, and together with its suburb, being especially drawn to him through the appreciation expressed by Bernardino OchinoBernardino Ochino ( 1487- 1564), was an Italian Reformer, born at Siena in 1487. At an early age he entered the order of Observantine Friars, and rose to be its general, but, craving a stricter rule, transferred himself in 1534 to the newly-founded order, and through their mutual friendship with the Lady Julia Gonzaga, whose spiritual adviser he became after the death of Valdés. He became a leading spirit in the literary and religious circle that gathered round Valdes in Naples, and that aimed at effecting from within the spiritual reformation of the church. Under Valdés' influence he whole-heartedly accepted LutherFor other people named Martin Luther see: Martin Luther (disambiguation Martin Luther (originally Martin Luder ( November 10, 1483 February 18, 1546) was a German theologian of the Christian religion and an Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Pr's doctrine of justification by faith, though he repudiated a policy of schism.
When the movement of suppression began, Carnesecchi was implicated. For a time he found shelter with his friends in Paris, and from 1552 he was in VeniceVenice ( Italian Venezia German Venedig , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,073 (2001). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater l leading the party of reform in that city. In 1557 he was cited (for the second time) before the tribunal in Rome, but refused to appear. The death of Paul IVPaul IV ne Gianni Carafa ( June 28, 1476 August 18, 1559) was Pope from May 23, 1555. Gianni Carafa was born in Benevento into a prominent noble family of Naples. He was mentored by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa, his relative, who resigned the See of Chieti (L and the accession of Pius IVPius IV ne Giovanni Angelo Medici ( March 31, 1499 December 9, 1565), pope from 1559 to 1565, was born of humble parentage in Milan. His early career connects itself in some measure with the romantic rise of his elder brother from the position of bravo to in 1559 made his position easier, and he came to live in Rome. With the accession of Pius V (Michael Ghislieri) in 1565 the Inquisition renewed its activities with fiercer zeal than ever.
Carnesecchi was in Venice when the news reached him, and betook himself to Florence, where, thinking himself safe, he was betrayed by Cosimo , the duke, who wished to curry favour with the pope. From July 1566 he lay in prison over a year. On September 21 1567 sentence of degradation and death was passed on him and sixteen others, ambassadors from Florence vainly kneeling to the pope for some mitigation, and on October 1 he was publicly beheaded and then burned.
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Carnesecchi, Pietro
Carnesecchi, Pietro
