Luigi Lippomano (also Alvise, or Aloisio, in Latin Aloisius Lipomanus) (1496,

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) was an Italian

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and hagiographer.

Life

Luigi Lippomano was the illegitimate son of Venetian patrician Bartolo Lippomano, who determined to provide an ecclesiastical career for his son. He graduated from the university at Padua and eventually entered into service at the papal court in Rome. Distinguished for his piety and integrity of character, he was among the first in Rome to join the "Oratorio della Carità" founded by St. Cajetan of Tiene, and composed of distinguished men, who in the Roman Curia were the leaven of Church reform, and afterwards took a prominent part in the

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. In 1528 he accompanied the court of

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to Orvieto after the sack of Rome by imperial troops. Later that year he sent his brother Thomas a detailed firsthand report of the great flood of the Tiber. In 1538, he was consecrated titular Bishop of Methone by Cardinal Gian Pietro Carafa, future

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, and appointed coadjutor ''cum jure successionis'' to his cousin Pietro Lippomano,

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sent him as

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to announce the convocation of the Council of Trent. He returned to Italy and took an active part in the council, following the council fathers to Bologna in 1547, where he attended all the sessions. When Pietro was transferred to

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in 1544, Luigi accompanied him. Pietro died in Edinburgh Castle during the summer of 1548 while on a diplomatic mission in Scotland, and Luigi succeeded him as Bishop of Verona. In 1548 he was sent with Bertano and Pighi to Germany. From 1551 he was one of the presidents of the Council until its suspension (25 April 1552), during that period the dogmatic decrees on the

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, and extreme unction were published, as well as several decrees on reform. In 1555

sent him as nuncio to Poland, where, on account of his lively opposition to the pretensions of the Protestant nobility, his reception was mixed. Tired and sick he returned to Verona in February 1557, and later, after recovery to Rome, where he stayed until his death on 15 August 1559.Tacchella ''Il Processo agli eretici veronesi''; Wojtyska, ''Aloisius Lippomano''; Teter ''Sinners on Trial'', chapter 5

Works

Amid his numerous official duties, he did not neglect his studies, which, however, he directed towards spiritual edification. Thus he wrote "Catenae in Genesin" (Paris, 1546), "In Exodum" (Paris, 1550)—both works republished at Rome in 1557; (Venice, 1553). His chief work was ''Sanctorum priscorum patrum vitae'' (8 vols., Venice, 1551–60; 2 vols., Louvain 1564), for which he engaged the services of many learned men, and himself, on his travels, searched libraries and archives. This collection gave a great impulse to scientific hagiography, and opened the way for

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and the

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References

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Notes

*Marco Foscarini, ''Della letteratura veneta'' (Venice, 1854) *Ferdinando Ughelli, ''Italia sacra'', IV (2nd ed.) 497-9 *Streber in ''Kirchenlexikon'', s. v. *''Diaria Conc. Trid.'', I-II (Freiburg, 1901-4), passim. * *Lorenzo Tacchella, ''Il Processo agli eretici veronesi nel 1550: S. Ignazio di Loyola e Luigi Lippomano'' (Verona, 1979) *Henryk Damian Wojtyska, ''Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae: Aloisius Lippomano 1555-1557'' (Rome, 1993) *Magda Teter, ''Sinners on Trial'' (Cambridge, Mass, 2011), chapter 5 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lippomano, Luigi 1500 births 1559 deaths Italian Roman Catholic titular bishops Participants in the Council of Trent Christian hagiographers Apostolic Nuncios to Poland 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Republic of Venice University of Padua alumni Italian male writers 16th-century Venetian writers 16th-century male writers Bishops of Bergamo