Pietro Bonomo
[Also Petrus.] (1458–1546) was an
Italian
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humanist
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and diplomat, who became
bishop of Trieste
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in 1502 and
archbishop of Vienna
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From 1469 to 1513, bi ...
briefly in 1522.
He was born into an important family in
Trieste
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, and studied at the
University of Bologna
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. He was taken into imperial service by
Emperor Frederick III. He was sent to negotiate with
Ludovico Sforza.
He was chancellor of Austria from 1521 to 1523.
References
*
Peter G. Bietenholz,
Thomas Brian Deutscher (1987), ''Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation'', p. 169.
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1458 births
1546 deaths
Bishops in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Italian Renaissance humanists
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Austria
Religious leaders from Trieste
Archbishops of Vienna
University of Bologna alumni