Bandinello Sauli (c. 1481 – 28 March 1518) was an

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and

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Biography

Bandinello Sauli was born in

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, ca. 1481, the son of

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Pasquale Sauli and Mariola Giustiniani Longhi. .Hyde, Cardinal Bendinello Sauli and Church Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Italy, p.1/ref> Early in his career, he was a

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. He was also an abbreviator and papal

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until 1511. On 5 October 1506 Sauli was appointed

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at the age of 12. He held this position until 1509 when he was elected Bishop of

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and Oppido. He held this post until 19 November 1517.

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made him a

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in the

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of 10 March 1511. He received the

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on 13 March 1511 and the deaconry of

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. He opted for the

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on 24 October 1511. He participated in the papal conclave of 1513 that elected

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. He was administrator of the see of Albenga from 5 August 1513 until 19 November 1517. On 18 July 1516 he opted for the titular church of

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. On 22 June 1517 he was deposed as a cardinal by Pope Leo X, arrested, and placed in the

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for his failure to disclose the assassination plot of Cardinal

Alfonso Petrucci Alfonso Petrucci (c. 1491 – July 16, 1517) was an Italian people, Italian nobleman, born to the Petrucci Family. He was the son of Pandolfo Petrucci. In 1511, he was made a cardinal, which gave the Petrucci dynasty some influence within the chur ...

. The pope restored him to the cardinalate ''sed non ad vocem activam et passivam'' on 31 July 1517, then restored him completely on 25 December 1517. Cardinal Sauli died in

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on 29 March 1518. He was buried in Santa Maria in Trastevere.

References

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