Marco Pellegrini (''fl.'' ca. 1500) was a

Dominican friar The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

and Vicar-General of the Dominicans in Lombardy from October 1506. As a novice he took part in the

Coppini Mission Francesco Coppini or dei Coppini (born before 1415 in Prato, died as Ignatius on 29 September 1464 in Rome) was an Italian prelate whom Pope Pius II sent to England in 1459 to arrange a reconciliation between the houses of Lancaster and York duri ...

to England. He was noted for his opposition to the doctrines of

Savonarola Girolamo Savonarola, OP (, , ; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction o ...

and as Vicar-General implemented stern measures to stamp them out in religious houses.

References

Tamar Herzig Tamar Herzig (born 1975) is an Israeli historian of Early Modern Europe who specializes in religious, social, minorities, and gender history, with a focus on Renaissance Italy. She is the Konrad Adenauer Professor of Comparative European History at ...

, ''Savonarola's women: visions and reform in Renaissance Italy'',

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', ...

, 2008, , p. 136 Year of birth missing Year of death missing Italian Dominicans 15th-century births 16th-century deaths {{Christianity-bio-stub