Pietro Carnesecchi
Pietro Carnesecchi (born December 24, 1508 in Florence , † October 1, 1567 in Rome ) was an Italian martyr of the Reformation .
Life
Carnesecchi was a son of the Florentine merchant Andrea Carnesecchi . He was raised in the house of his uncle, Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena in Rome, and received a humanist education. He first became a notary , then apostolic protonotary at the curia and in 1533 he became secretary to Pope Clement VII. Here Carnesecchi met Juan de Valdés for the first time , whom he followed to Naples in 1536 and from whom he accepted the idea of Martin Luther's doctrine of justification . After Valdés' death, Carnesecchi left Naples. In 1537 he went to Paris and stayed at the court of the French Queen Catherine de Medici . There he could live without worries, since Pope Paul III. protected him. In 1542 he went to Venice . Suspected of spreading Protestant doctrines, he was summoned to Rome, convicted of heresy, but then pardoned. His trial was crushed. In 1566, however, at the instigation of Cosimo I de'Medici, he was arrested again and handed over to the Roman Inquisition . This time Carnesecchi was sentenced to death and beheaded after a long trial ; his body was cremated.
Remembrance day
October 2nd in the Evangelical Name Calendar .
literature
- Antonio Rotondò: Carnesecchi, Pietro. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 20: Carducci-Carusi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1977.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Pietro Carnesecchi. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 933-934.
- Manfred E. Welti: Brief history of the Italian Reformation (= writings of the Association for Reformation History . Vol. 193). Mohn, Gütersloh 1985, ISBN 3-579-01663-6 , pp. 29-75 ( digitized in the Google book search).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carnesecchi, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian humanist and martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1508 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1567 |
| Place of death | Rome |