Vincenzo Diedo

Vincenzo Diedo (* 1499 in Venice ; † December 9, 1559 there ) was an Italian patriarch .

biography

Vincenzo Diedo was born in Venice in 1499 to Alvice di Francesco and Elisabetta Priule. It was about a wealthy and respected family who made Vincenzo possible a political career with his intellectual qualities.

In October 1530, Diedo was part of an embassy of 28 nobles who were sent to Chioggia to meet the Duke of Milan. In September 1533 he became head of the Cottimo di Londra and resigned from this position on September 17, 1534 to become an official in the Dieci Uffici. He left this position on January 11, 1535 for unknown reasons.

In 1537 - the year his father died - he was elected ambassador to the Polish King Sigismund I in order to form a coalition against Suleyman I. The departure had to be postponed and there is no document showing that he was an ambassador. Instead, the attention of Venetian diplomacy has shifted to the Nice Conference. Despite its positive result, the republic had to sign an inglorious peace with the aggressor in 1540.

Diedo became part of the criminal Quarantia and took over the Podesta of Bergamo in September 1540 . The final report read out in the Senate on January 30, 1542, consisted primarily of the lack of productivity in the territory. In order to meet the needs of the residents, the strengthening of the market and the abolition of certain restrictions in Romano were advocated: in practice the freedom of trade and smuggling.

Back in Venice he belonged to the Savi di Terraferma from April to September 1542 , then after two years of absence from politics he was appointed Podestà of Verona , where he stayed from May 1545 to July 1546.

In the second half of 1547 he belonged again to the Savio di Terraferma, on June 29 of the following year he entered the college of the twenty-five Tansadori . In the second half of 1549 he was Savio di Terraferma, but he did not end his mandate as he became governor of Patria del Friuli in November, where he stayed until the spring of 1551 and was mainly concerned with the financial regulation of the province.

After his return he held again from April 1 to September 30, 1551 the position of Savio di Terraferma. At the beginning of 1952 he was elected to reformer Studio di Padova , but opted for the Savio di Terraferma. On October 8th he was confirmed again as the reformer of the Studio di Padova, not even four months later he turned down the position of ducal advisor for the sestiere of San Polo, where he had probably moved after the death of his father.

He then supported the government one last time and held the post of Capitano of Padua from August 1554 to the end of 1555 .

After the very long and difficult patriarchy of the Dominican Gerolamo Querini (1524-54), who rigorously enforced the prerogatives of the church over the state, but just as unyielding against his own clergy and the papal nuncio himself, the Senate had decided to give a layman to a religious preferable. The choice fell on Senator Pietro Francesco Contarini . Contarini died after only sixteen months and in the election of December 27, 1555, the Pregadi chose Diedo as patriarch. Diedo was still in Padua and immediately returned to Venice. The election was confirmed by Pope Paul IV on February 28th . He spent his four-year term in particular monitoring and regulating the discipline of the clergy and the criteria for admission to the holy orders. On his initiative, Andrea Palladio was entrusted with the design of the new facade of San Pietro di Castello .

He died on December 8, 1559. He was buried in a tomb near the main door of the Cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.

literature

• Alessandro Orsoni: Cronologia storica dei vescovi olivolensi, detti dappoi castellani e successivi patriarchi di Venezia . Felice, Venice 1828 (Italian, Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

• Patriarch Vincenzo Diedo † . Catholic Hierarchy.
• Giuseppe Gullino:  DIEDO, Vincenzo. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 39:  Deodato-DiFalco. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1991.

predecessor	Office	successor
Pietro Francesco Contarini	Patriarch of Venice January 25, 1556 - December 9, 1559	Giovanni Trevisan