- Pietro Accolti
Pietro Accolti (
15 March 1455 -11 December 1532 ), known as the "cardinal ofAncona ", was an ItalianRoman Catholic cardinal . He was born inFlorence , the son ofBenedetto Accolti sr , and died atRome (Ciaconi , "Vitae Pontificum", 1677, iii. 295).He was
abbreviator underPope Leo X , and in that capacity drew up in 1520 the bull againstMartin Luther (L. Cardella, "Memorie Storiche de' Cardinali", 1793, iii. 450).He was made
Bishop of Ancona in 1505, and, in 1511, cardinal-priest byPope Julius II with the title ofSant'Eusebio . Accolti opted as cardinal-bishop in 1523 to the title of
Albano, and later wasCardinal Bishop of Palestrina (1524) and lately in the same yearCardinal Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto . He also held as administrator the sees of Cadiz, Maillezais, Arras and Cremona, and was madeArchbishop of Ravenna (1524) byPope Clement VII .References
*1911
External links
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baccol.html catholic-hierarchy.org info on Accolti]
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