Paul (Paolo) Giustiniani (1476–1528), born Tommaso (Thomas), was a Roman Catholic clergyman who reformed the

Camaldolese The Camaldolese Hermits of Mount Corona ( la, Congregatio Eremitarum Camaldulensium Montis Coronae), commonly called Camaldolese is a monastic order of Pontifical Right for men founded by Saint Romuald. Their name is derived from the Holy Hermita ...

order of monks. In 1510, he joined

Camaldoli Camaldoli () is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Poppi, in Tuscany, Italy. It is mostly known as the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order, originated in the eponymous hermitage, which can still be visited. The name was derived from ...

. At the time, there were problems and disagreements in monastic observance between the hermits and monks in Camaldoli, and which Prior General

Peter Delfino Pietro Delfino or Delfin, O.S.B. Cam., (born at Venice in 1444; died 16 January 1525) was an Italian Camaldolese monk, patristic scholar, theologian, abbot, and Superior General of his religious Order. Life Pietro Delfin was a patrician of Ve ...

was unable to resolve. He was friends with Pope Leo X, who granted Giustiniani the powers to institute reform of the order. He was elected superior of the hermitage and Camaldoli in 1516 and published the ''Regula Vitae Eremiticae'' in 1520. However, he continued to encounter disagreement and opposition to his reforms, and so subsequently left with some other hermits to form a separate group, which would later evolve into an autonomous congregation. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as Blessed Paolo Giustiniani. His feast day is celebrated by the Camaldolese Order on 25 July and elsewhere on 28 July.

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