Angelo Geraldini

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

He studied canon law at the University of Perugia,[1] and was professor there 1444–46.[2] In the papal curia he was appointed count palatine by Pope Callistus II in 1455.[3]

He served under Niccolò Fortiguerra in the papal forces fighting Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, and against Ferrante.[4]

He was legal adviser to Cardinal Domenico Capranica.[3] In France he governed the Venaissin, at two periods.[3][5] 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.[3]

He was bishop of Sessa Aurunca in 1465[6] and bishop of Kammin, from 1482 to 1485.

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Notes

  1. Lo Studio di Perugia - Lista maestri in ordine alfabetico A
  2. Key to Umbria: City Walks - Palazzo dell' Università Vecchia
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5rt6fR81E1wJ:www.geraldini.com/documenti/disk4/The%2520Geraldini%2520family%2520.doc+Geraldini+humanist&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=uk
  4. D. S. Chambers, Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (2006), p. 90
  5. France
  6. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sessa-Aurunca