Girolamo Dandini (cardinal)
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Girolamo Dandini (1509 – 4 December 1559) was an Italian
cardinal nephew
in 1692.
Biography
Dandini was born in
utroque iuris in both canon and civil law. He went to Rome and became secretary to Pope Paul III, who appointed him Protonotary apostolic
.
He was sent as
bishop of Imola (17 May 1546), where he was abbot in commendam of San Firmino. He renounced the see in favour of his nephew, Anastasio Umberto Dandini, who died unexpectedly in 1558, whereupon Cesare Dandini took up the see once more and held it until his death the following year.[3] in the meantime he was again nuncio in France, charged with opposing royal support of Protestantism at the court of the new king, Henri II, July 1546 to September 1547. As legate to Emperor Charles V he negotiated the continuation of the Council of Trent
and obtained assistance for the war of Parma and Mirandola. He was named to the lucrative post of commissary general of the papal army.
Dandini was created cardinal by
Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte
.
He participated in the Conclaves of 1555; in the Conclave of 1559 he had to retire from the conclave of 1559 because of illness and died in his palazzo near the Church of San Marcello, where he is buried.
References
- ^ Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1820). Episcoporum Forocorneliensium series (in Latin). Vol. Tomus II. Imola: Beneccius. pp. 178–180.
- OCLC 53276621. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "Mons. Tommaso Ghirelli: Imola: Elenco vescovi". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2007-10-11.
External links and additional sources
- Cheney, David M. "Girolamo Cardinal Dandini". [self-published]
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