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Giorgio Andreasi

Giorgio Andreasi

Roman Catholic prelate

Giorgio Andreasi (1467–1549) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1544–1549),[1] Apostolic Nuncio to Venice (1540–1542), and Bishop of Chiusi (1538–1544).[2]

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Giorgio Andreasi was born in Mantua, Italy in 1467.[3][4] He had an elder brother, Lodovico, who was born in 1462, and was a Consistorial Advocate in Rome under Pope Julius II; he died in 1506.[5]

He began his career as secretary to Cardinal Francesco Sforza, the brother of the Duke of Milan. He was elected Archpriest of the cathedral Chapter of Milan.[6]

Andreasi was a Protonotary Apostolic, and was the ambassador (orator) of the Duke of Milan to the Emperor Charles V, and then to Pope Clement VII, at least from 1529 to 1532.[7]

On 20 March 1538, he was appointed by Pope Paul III to the diocese of Chiusi.[2][3]

On 22 February 1540, he was appointed by Pope Paul III as Papal Legate in Venice; he was recalled on 18 April 1542.[8]

He attended the Council of Trent.[9]

On 2 April 1544, he was transferred by Paul III to the diocese of Reggio Emilia.[1][3] In 1545 and again in 1548, assisted by his Vicars, Bishop Andreasi made official Visitations of the religious institutions in his diocese. Due to his advancing age, Bishop Andreasi was granted a Coadjutor on 14 December 1545, his own nephew Giovanni Battista Grossi. Grossi was not in major Holy Orders, and consequently his powers were limited.[10]

He died on 22 January 1549 at the age of nearly eighty-two,[1][11] and after a public viewing for two days, his remains were taken to Mantua for burial. He was originally interred in the Carmelite church in Mantua, with a monument by Prospero Clemente of Reggio, but when the Carmelites were suppressed in 1785, his monument was moved to the church of S. Andrea.[12]

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Girolamo Foscari, Bishop of Torcello (1542).[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 284.
  2. [2]
    Eubel III, p. 171.
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    Cheney, David M. "Bishop Giorgio Andreasi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. [self-published]
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    Chow, Gabriel. "Bishop Giorgio Andreasi". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. [self-published]
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    Alessandro Sordi (1850). Cenni biografici delle dignita e dei canonici della Mantovana Chiesa assunti all'episcopato in patria e fuori dall'ANNO 1077 sino a nostri giorni corredati di documenti e di annotazioni (in Italian). Fratelli Negretti. p. 58.
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    Sordi, p. 59.
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    Ireneo Affò (1780). Vita di Luigi Gonzaga detto Rodomonte principe del Sacro Romano Impero (in Italian). Parma: presso Filippo Carmignani. pp. 93, note (a). Rossana Sacchi (2005). Il disegno incompiuto: la politica artistica di Francesco II Sforza e di Massimiliano Stampa (in Italian). Milan: LED. pp. 59, 119, 121. ISBN 978-88-7916-292-0.
  8. [8]
    Eubel, III, p. 171, note 8. Saccani, p. 122. His tomb inscription says, apud Venetos legati munere functus.
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    Giancarlo Petrella (2004). L'officina del geografo: la "Descrittione di tutta Italia" di Leandro Alberti e gli studi geografico-antiquari tra Quattro e Cinquecento (in Italian). Milan: Vita e pensiero università. p. 211. ISBN 978-88-343-1120-2.
  10. [10]
    Saccani, pp. 121-122.
  11. [11]
    Sordi, p. 60. Saccani, p. 122.
  12. [12]
    Francesco Antoldi (1816). Guida pel forestiere che brama di conoscere le piu pregevoli opere di belle arti nella citta di Mantova (in Italian). Mantua: Erede Pazzoni. pp. 53–54. Monumenti di pittura e scultura trascelti in Mantova o nel suo territorio (in Italian). Mantua: Tip. Virgiliana. 1827. pp. 3–4, with Tav. II.
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