Giovan Francesco Morosini (cardinal)

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Giovan Francesco Morosini
Cardinal,
Bishop)
by Cesare Costa
Created cardinal15 July 1588
by Pope Sixtus V
Personal details
Born(1537-09-30)30 September 1537
Venice
Died14 January 1596(1596-01-14) (aged 58)
Brescia
BuriedOld Cathedral, Brescia

Giovan Francesco Morosini or Gianfrancesco Morosini (30 September 1537 – 14 January 1596) was a

Bishop of Brescia and Apostolic Nuncio in France
.

Life

Giovanni Francesco Morosini was born in Venice on 30 September 1537.[1] He was the son of the Venetian patricians Pietro Morosini and Cornelia Corner, sister of cardinals Luigi and Federico Corner. His father, member of the Council of Ten, committed suicide on 21 March 1570.

Still young, he accompanied a relative in France, Alvise Badoer, who had been appointed extraordinary ambassador to that kingdom on behalf of the Republic of Venice. When he returned home, he was sent by the Republic of Venice to Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and on 1 May 1568 he was sent to the court of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, always as legate, leaving Turin on 29 September 1570.[2]

In June 1573 Morosini was sent to

Polish crown. In December of that same year, he was appointed ambassador of Venice to the court of Charles IX of France, remaining there until the election of Henry III of France. From 1582 to 1585 he served as bailo to the Sultan Murad III in Constantinople.[2]

In early 1585

Apostolic Nuncio to Venice.[1]

Sixtus V sent him as his

Louis II, Cardinal of Guise and of the Duke of Guise by order of Henry III marked the failure of his politic.[2]

In the meantime, on 15 July 1588 he was elected

Cardinal priest with the title of Santi Nereo e Achilleo. In 1590 he changed his title to that of Santa Maria in Via.[3]

Having returned to Italy from France in September 1589, he went to Rome where he was charged with not having excommunicated Henry III of France after the murders of the Cardinal of Guise and of the Duke of Guise by order of that king.[2]

Appointed protector of Germany and Hungary, he was a close friend of Saint Philip Neri and his supporter. He died in Brescia on 14 January 1596 and was buried in the Old Cathedral of that town.[4] He left his goods to the hospital of Brescia.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b David Cheney. "Gianfrancesco Cardinal Morosini". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-8-81200032-6
    .
  3. ^
    OCLC 53276621
    .
  4. ^ Cosmi, Stefano (1676). Memorie della vita di Gio. Francesco Morosini (in Italian). Venezia: G.B. Catani. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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