Angelo Geraldini

Angelo Geraldini (1422-1486) was an Italian humanist and diplomat, who became a bishop.

He studied canon law at the university of Perugia [ [http://www.unisi.it/docentes/perugia/docenti-a.html Lo Studio di Perugia - Lista maestri in ordine alfabetico A ] ] , and was professor there 1444-46 [ [http://www.ktucitywalks.co.uk/250.html Key to Umbria: City Walks - Palazzo dell' Università Vecchia ] ] . In the papal curia he was appointed count palatine by Pope Callistus II in 1455http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:5rt6fR81E1wJ:www.geraldini.com/documenti/disk4/The%2520Geraldini%2520family%2520.doc+Geraldini+humanist&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=uk] .

He served under Niccolò Fortiguerra in the papal forces fighting Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, and against Ferrante. [D. S. Chambers, "Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe" (2006), p. 90] .

He was legal adviser to Cardinal Domenico Capranica. In France he governed the Venaissin, at two periods [ [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/France.html France ] ] . He went on missions to the Council of Basel in 1482, and to the court of John II of Aragon, leading to a Spanish ministerial appointment and close involvement in the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs.

He was bishop of Sessa Aurunca in 1465 [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13737b.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sessa-Aurunca ] ] and bishop of Kammin, from 1482 to 1485.

References

*Jürgen Petersohn (1985), "Ein Diplomat des Quattrocento: Angelo Geraldini (1422-1486)"
*Jürgen Petersohn (editor) (1987), "Diplomatische Berichte und Denkschriften des Päpstlichen Legaten Angelo Geraldini aus der Zeit seiner Basel-Legation (1482-1483)"

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