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GIOVANNI MORONE (1509-1580)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORONE (1509-1580)  , See also:Italian See also:cardinal, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:January 1509 at See also:Milan, where his See also:father, See also:Count Ieronimo See also:Morone (d . 1529), was See also:grand See also:chancellor . His father, who had been imprisoned for opposing encroachments on the liberties of Milan by See also:Charles V . (whom he afterwards cordially supported), removed to See also:Modena, where his youngest son had most of his See also:early See also:education . Proceeding to See also:Padua he studied See also:jurisprudence with distinction . In return for important service rendered by his father, he was in 1527 nominated by See also:Clement VIII. to the see of Modena, and consecrated in 1533 after a contest . From 1535 he was constantly entrusted by See also:Paul III. with See also:diplomatic See also:missions; he was See also:nuncio (1536) to See also:Ferdinand, See also:king of the See also:Romans, and See also:legate to the See also:diet of See also:Spires (1542) having successfully resisted the See also:transfer of the diet to See also:Hagenau on See also:account of the See also:plague (1540) . On the 31st of May 1542 he was created cardinal, and was further nominated See also:protector of See also:England, See also:Hungary, See also:Austria, of several religious orders, and of the See also:santa casa at See also:Loreto . With the cardinals Paul Parisio and Reginald See also:Pole he was deputed to open the See also:Council of See also:Trent (Nov . 1, 1542), the See also:place of See also:meeting having been a concession to his See also:diplomacy . The legates arrived on the 22nd of See also:November, but no council assembled . The See also:death of Paul III .

(1549) deprived him of a See also:

good friend . The views of the Reformers had spread in his See also:diocese, and he was suspected of temporizing with them . He resigned his see (155c) in favour of the Dominican Egidio Foscherari, reserving to himself an See also:annual See also:pension and the patronage of livings . See also:Julius III., at the instance of the See also:duke of Milan, gave him (1553) the See also:rich see of See also:Novara (which he resigned in 156o for the see of Albano) and sent him as nuncio to the diet of See also:Augsburg (1555), from which he was immediately recalled by the death of Julius (See also:March 23) . In See also:June 1557 Paul IV. imprisoned him in the See also:castle of St Angelo (with others, including Pole, and Foscherari), on suspicion of Lutheran See also:heresy . The See also:prosecution entirely failed, and Morone might have had his See also:liberty. but refused to leave See also:prison unless Paul IV. publicly acknowledged his innocence . He remained incarcerated till the See also:pope's death (Aug . 18, 1559), and took See also:part in the See also:election of See also:Pius IV . See also:Ochino, in the twenty-eighth of his Dialogi See also:XXX., 1563 has a colloquy on the treatment of heretics, between Pius IV. and Morone, in which the latter maintains: " Errantes in viam revocandi, non occidendi." This really hits the position of Morone, a sincere See also:Catholic, to whom persecution was abhorrent . He presided at the Tridentine Council from the loth of See also:April to the 4th of See also:December 1563, and endeavoured to exercise a conciliatory See also:influence . At the end of 1564 Foscherari died, and Morone was reinstated in the see of Modena . On the death of Pius IV .

(1565) he came near to being elected pope . His last days were easy; he died at See also:

Rome on the 1st of December 158o, and was buried at S . Maria sopra See also:Minerva . His writings comprise a few letters an.d orations . His career is that of a good See also:man, struggling for the welfare of his See also:Church against corruptions not essential to the See also:system to which he was devoted . See J . G . Frick, " De Joanne Morono," in J . G . Schelhorn's Amoenitales literariae, vol. xii . (1730) ; " G . See also:Moroni," Dizionario di erudizione (1847) ; N .

Bernabei, Vita del cardinale G . Moroni (1885) ; M . See also:

Young, See also:Life and Times of Aonio See also:Paleario (186o) ; C . Beneath, in Hauck s Realencyklopadie (1903) . (A .

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