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 III 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.

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)

Notes
  1. Lo Studio di Perugia - Lista maestri in ordine alfabetico A
  2. Key to Umbria: City Walks - Palazzo dell' Università Vecchia Archived January 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. https://www.geraldini.com/documenti/disk4/The%20Geraldini%20family%20.doc Archived January 16, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  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


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