Atinolfo was the Bishop of Fiesole (1038–1057) and an opponent of Papal reform.

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suggest that he was a Lombard originally from

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. Atinolfo was staying in

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when he was appointed bishop by the

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in February or March 1038. His predecessor, also an imperial appointee, was Iacopo il Bavaro, was a reformer who restored the diocesan patrimony. Atinolfo appears to have been otherwise. He repossessed the possessions of the diocese which Iacopo had granted to the monastery of San Bartolomeo. As late as July 1039 he was still not

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, despite the growing movement within

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against that practice. He appears also to have been an imperial partisan, though imperial intervention in ecclesiastical affairs would soon stir up the

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. On 25 October 1046 he attended the Synod of Pavia convoked by the

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. Nonetheless, Atinolfo signed the canons with Gerard, Bishop of Florence, of a Roman synod convened under

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, a reformer, in May 1050. On 15 July 1050, while the pope was passing through Florence, the monks of San Bartolomeo met him and implored him to confirm the donation that Iacopo had made to them. The pope did and Atinolof complied by restoring the possessions in a charter in which he describes Conrad II, not the pope, as ''senior mei'' (my lord). Atinolof was last recorded in July 1057 at a synod of Tuscan bishops in

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under

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References

*"Atinolfo." ''Dizionario biografico degli Italiani'', vol. IV (Rome: Società Grafica Romana, 1962), p. 526. {{DEFAULTSORT:Atinolfo 1050s deaths Bishops in Tuscany People from the Province of Florence 11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops 11th-century Lombard people Year of birth unknown