Rodolfo Pio

Cardinal Rodolfo Pio (painting around 1540)

Rodolfo Pio da Carpi (born February 22, 1500 in Carpi near Modena , † May 2, 1564 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church .

biography

Rodolfo Pio was the son of Lionello II. Pio and his wife Maria geb. Martinengo. The father's brother Alberto III. Pio, as the last ruling count of the family, ruled over the county of Carpi and was an avowed opponent of the emerging Protestantism as well as a great collector of Greek, Latin and Hebrew books. The nephew later inherited this library from his uncle.

Rodolfo first studied under the humanist Aldo Manuzio and received a general humanistic education here. He later studied law, philosophy and theology in Padua and Rome. In 1528 he became Bishop of Faenza , but was not ordained episcopal until 1533 by Cardinal Bonifacio Ferrero ; Co- consecrators were Onofrio Bartolini de 'Medici , Archbishop of Pisa , and Guglielmo (Alessandro) OSA , Auxiliary Bishop in Ivrea . From 1529 he also worked as a nuncio in France (until 1537) and later also for Savoy . Pio was involved in the preparation of a reform council . Pope Paul III created him on December 22, 1536 cardinal and in 1537 appointed him first cardinal priest of the titular church Santa Pudenziana , then of Santa Prisca . 1543–1544 he moved to the titular church of San Clemente , from 1544 to 1553 he held Santa Maria in Trastevere . In January 1540 he became a legate in the Marche . In 1544 he resigned from his office as Bishop of Faenza and became apostolic administrator of the Girgenti diocese in Sicily. After he was in 1553 by Pope Julius III. was admitted to the class of cardinal bishops , Pio received the suburbicarian dioceses Albano (1553), Frascati (1553), Porto e Santa Rufina (1555) and finally in 1562 Ostia and Velletri , which he also rose to dean of the college of cardinals .

Pio da Carpi represented the Inquisition and defended the new orders of the Capuchins and Jesuits . As a cardinal he was able to participate in four conclaves : 1549/1550, April 1555, May 1555 and 1559. Other cardinals from the same noble family were Carlo Emanuele Pio (appointed 1604) and Carlo Pio (appointed 1654).

literature

Christiane Hoffmann: Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi and his reform of the Aegidian Constitutions . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06708-8 ( partial scan of the source ).
Matteo Al Kalak: Pio, Rodolfo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 84: Pio VI – Ponzo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015, pp. 94-98.

Web links

Pio, Rodolfo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 3, 2017.
Entry on Rodolfo Pio on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved February 3, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Silvana Seidel Menchi: Erasmus as a heretic: Reformation and Inquisition in Italy in the 16th century . Brill, Leiden NL 1993, ISBN 978-90-04-09474-1 , pp. 446 note 50 ( on the inheritance of the uncle's book collection ).

predecessor	Office	successor
François de Tournon	Dean of the College of Cardinals 1562–1564	Francesco Pisani
François de Tournon	Cardinal Bishop of Ostia e Velletri 1562–1564	Francesco Pisani
Jean du Bellay	Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina 1555–1562	Francesco Pisani
Jean du Bellay	Cardinal Bishop of Frascati 1553–1555	Juan Álvarez y Alva de Toledo
Ennio Filonardi	Cardinal Bishop of Albano 1550	Jean du Bellay
Pier Andrea Gambari	Bishop of Faenza 1528–1544	Teodoro Pio

personal data
SURNAME	Pio, Rodolfo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pio da Carpi, Rodolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, cardinal of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH	Carpi (Province of Modena)
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1564
Place of death	Rome

[1] Silvana Seidel Menchi: Erasmus as a heretic: Reformation and Inquisition in Italy in the 16th century . Brill, Leiden NL 1993, ISBN 978-90-04-09474-1 , pp. 446 note 50 ( on the inheritance of the uncle's book collection ).