Bernardo Navagero
| Bernardo Navagero | |
|---|---|
| Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio fuori le mura | |
| Other posts | Bishop of Verona, 1562-65 |
| Orders | |
| Created Cardinal | 26 February 1561 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1507 Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Died |
13 April 1565 Verona, Republic of Venice |
| Buried | Verona Cathedral |
Bernardo Navagero (Venice 1507- Verona 1565) was a Venetian ambassador and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Venetian patrician, son of Gianluigi Navagero and Lucrezia Agostini, he studied at the University of Padua. He got married with Istriana Lando, granddaughter of the doge Pietro Lando, but she died young.
He has been Venetian resident ambassador at the courts of emperor Charles V (1543-46), Suleiman the Magnificent (1550-52) and pope Paul IV (1555-58), and member of the Council of Ten (1552).
On 26 February 1561 he was named cardinal by pope Pius IV, and he has been bishop of Verona from 1562 until his death. In 1563 he was legatus a latere at the council of Trent.
He died in Verona on 13 April 1565, leaving his episcopate to his nephew Agostino Valier.
External links
- Short biography of the cardinal Navagero on the site The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
- Relazione of Bernardo Navagero, Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V (1546) (Italian)
- Despatches of Bernardo Navagero, Venetian ambassador in Rome, 1555-1558 (Italian)
Bibliography
- D. Santarelli (ed.), La corrispondenza di Bernardo Navagero, ambasciatore veneziano a Roma (1555-1558), 2 vol., Rome, Aracne editrice, 2011