Vincenzo Querini

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Vincenzo Querini or Vincenzo Quirini (* 1478 or 1479; † September 23, 1514 ), religious name Pietro, was a Venetian diplomat and cleric.

Querini was born in Venice in 1478 or 1479 . From 1492 he studied in Padua . After graduating, he took part in a disputation in Rome on May 29, 1502 .

On December 16, 1504, he was elected the Venetian ambassador to Philip "the beautiful" ; As part of this diplomatic mission, he traveled to the Burgundian Netherlands , England and Spain . He returned to Venice in October 1506 ; shortly afterwards he was appointed ambassador to Emperor Maximilian . He started this trip in February 1507 and returned to Venice in November of the same year.

In November 1511 he left for Camaldoli to enter the monastery there; because of an illness he stayed in Florence in January 1512 . On February 22nd, 1512 he was accepted into the Camaldolese order with the religious name Fra Pietro . Together with his friend Tommaso Giustiniani, he pushed ahead with an organizational reform of the order; they received the corresponding papal bull on July 4, 1513 from Pope Leo X in Rome. During her stay in Rome, they also gave her Libellus ad Leonem X , a programmatic pamphlet with proposals for reforming the Catholic Church.

In the spring of 1514 Querini traveled again to Rome because of the reform of the order, where he was entrusted by the Pope for diplomatic tasks with the aim of rapprochement with the Republic of Venice . Satisfied with his mediation efforts, the Republic officially proposed him as a candidate for the office of cardinal.

He died in Rome on September 23, 1514.

literature

  • Bowd, Stephen D .: Contemplatives in Action: Vincenzo Querini, Gasparo Contarini and the Shaping of Politics in Renaissance Italy . Dissertation. Edinburgh 1997. online
  • Trebbi, Giuseppe: "Querini, Vincenzo", in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . Volume 86. Roma 2016, pp. 35-40. on-line

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bowd (1997), pp. 1, 6, 132; Trebbi (2016), pp. 35, 39.
  2. ↑ See Bowd (1997), pp. 6-8; Trebbi (2016), p. 35.
  3. ↑ See Bowd (1997), pp. 19-29; Trebbi (2016), pp. 35-36.
  4. ↑ See Trebbi (2016), pp. 37–38.
  5. ↑ See Trebbi (2016), pp. 38–39.
  6. ↑ See Trebbi (2016), p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Querini, Vincenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quirini, Vincenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian diplomat and cleric
DATE OF BIRTH 1478 or 1479
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1514