Jacopo Sadoleto
Jacopo Sadoleto (July 12, 1477 – October 18, 1547) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and counterreformer noted for his correspondence with and opposition to John Calvin.
Life
He was born at Modena in 1477, the son of a noted jurist, he acquired reputation as a neo-Latin poet, his best-known piece being one on the group of Laocoön. In Rome, he obtained the patronage of Cardinal Carafa and adopted the ecclesiastical career. Pope Leo X chose him as his secretary along with Pietro Bembo,[1] and in 1517 made him bishop of Carpentras.
A faithful servant of the papacy in many negotiations under successive popes, especially as a peacemaker, his major aim was to win back the Protestants by peaceful persuasion and by putting Catholic doctrine in a conciliatory form. Sadoleto was a diligent bishop, made cardinal in 1536, given the titular church of San Callisto.[2]
In 1539 Cardinal Sadoleto wrote to the people of Geneva, urging them to return to the Catholic faith. John Calvin had been asked to leave Geneva the previous year, and was living in Strasbourg, but the Genevans still asked Calvin to write a response to Sadoleto, which he did.[3]
Sadolato died in Rome in 1547, aged 70.
Works
Sadoleto's collected works appeared at Mainz in 1607, and include, besides his theologico-ironical pieces, a collection of Epistles, a treatise on education (first published in 1533), and the Phaedrus, a defence of philosophy, written in 1538. The best collection is that published at Verona (1737–1738); it includes the life by Fiordibello.
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References
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- ↑ Cardinal Title S. Callisto GCatholic.org
- ↑ Both letters can be found in Calvin's Tracts Relating to the Reformation, translated by H. Beveridge, 1844. Digitized by Google Books.
Bibliography
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- Pericaud, Antoine. Fragments biographiques sur Jacob Sadolet (Lyon, 1849)
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External links
- Works by Jacopo Sadoleto at Gallica
- Works by Jacopo Sadoleto at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Pages with broken file links
- Accuracy disputes from March 2016
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
- 1477 births
- 1547 deaths
- Italian Renaissance humanists
- 16th-century Italian cardinals
- New Latin-language poets
- Bishops of Carpentras
- 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
