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PIETRO See also:CARNESECCHI (1508-1567)
, See also:Italian humanist, was the son of a Florentine See also:merchant, who under the patronage of the See also:Medici, and especially of Giovanni de' Medici as See also:Pope See also:Clement VII., rapidly See also:rose to high See also:office at the papal See also:court
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He came into See also:touch with the new learning at the See also:house of his maternal See also:uncle, See also:Cardinal Bernardo Dovizzi, in See also:Rome
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At the See also:age of twenty-five he held several See also:rich livings, had been See also:notary and protonotary to the See also:Curia, and was first secretary to the pope, in which capacity he conducted the See also:correspondence with the nuncios (among them See also:Pier See also:Paolo Bergerio in See also:Germany) and a See also:host of other duties
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By his conduct at the See also:conference with See also:Francis I. at See also:Marseilles he won the favour of See also:Catherine de' Medici and other influential personages at the See also:French court, who in later days befriended him
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He made the acquaintance of the See also:Spanish reformer Juan de See also:Valdes at Rome, and got to know him as a theologian at See also:Naples, being especially See also:drawn to him through the appreciation expressed by Bernardino See also:Ochino, and through their mutual friendship with the See also:Lady Julia See also:Gonzaga, whose spiritual adviser he became after the See also:death of Valdes
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He became a leading spirit in the See also:literary and religious circle that gathered See also:round Valdes in Naples, and that aimed at effecting from within the spiritual See also:reformation of the See also: (See also:Michael Ghislieri) in 1565 the See also:Inquisition renewed its activities with fiercer zeal than ever . Carnesecchi was in Venice when the See also:news reached him, and betook himself to See also:Florence, where, thinking himself safe, he was betrayed by Cosimo, the See also:duke, who wished to See also:curry favour with the pope . From See also:July 1566 he See also:lay in See also:prison over a See also:year . On the 21st of See also:September 1567 See also:sentence of degradation and death was passed on him and sixteen others, ambassadors from Florence vainly kneeling to the pope for some mitigation, and on the 1st of See also:October he was publicly beheaded and then burned . |
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