Pietro Carnesecchi
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Pietro Carnesecchi (24 December 1508 – 1 October 1567) was an Italian humanist.
Biography
Born in
He came into touch with the
By his conduct at the conference with
He was also an intimate friend of the poet Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Fondi in 1535.
When the movement of suppression began, Carnesecchi was implicated. For a time he found shelter with his friends in
Carnesecchi was in Venice when the news reached him, and betook himself to Florence, where, thinking himself safe, he was betrayed by Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, who wished to curry favour with the pope. From July 1566 he lay in prison over a year. On 21 September 1567 a 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 1 October he was publicly beheaded and then burned.
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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