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MORONE, GIOVANNI (1509-1580)

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MORONE, GIOVANNI (1509-1580) , See also:Italian See also:cardinal, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:January 1509 at See also:Milan, where his See also:father, See also:Count Ieronimo Morone (d. 1529), was See also:grand See also:chancellor. His father, who had been imprisoned for opposing encroachments on the liberties of Milan by See also:Charles V. (whom he afterwards cordially supported), removed to See also:Modena, where his youngest son had most of his See also:early See also:education. Proceeding to See also:Padua he studied See also:jurisprudence with distinction. In return for important service rendered by his father, he was in 1527 nominated by See also:Clement VIII. to the see of Modena, and consecrated in 1533 after a contest. From 1535 he was constantly entrusted by See also:Paul III. with See also:diplomatic See also:missions; he was See also:nuncio (1536) to See also:Ferdinand, See also:king of the See also:Romans, and See also:legate to the See also:diet of See also:Spires (1542) having successfully resisted the See also:transfer of the diet to See also:Hagenau on See also:account of the See also:plague (1540). On the 31st of May 1542 he was created cardinal, and was further nominated See also:protector of See also:England, See also:Hungary, See also:Austria, of several religious orders, and of the See also:santa casa at See also:Loreto. With the cardinals Paul Parisio and Reginald See also:Pole he was deputed to open the See also:Council of See also:Trent (Nov. 1, 1542), the See also:place of See also:meeting having been a concession to his See also:diplomacy. The legates arrived on the 22nd of See also:November, but no council assembled. The See also:death of Paul III.

(1549) deprived him of a See also:

good friend. The views of the Reformers had spread in his See also:diocese, and he was suspected of temporizing with them. He resigned his see (155c) in favour of the Dominican Egidio Foscherari, reserving to himself an See also:annual See also:pension and the patronage of livings. See also:Julius III., at the instance of the See also:duke of Milan, gave him (1553) the See also:rich see of See also:Novara (which he resigned in 156o for the see of Albano) and sent him as nuncio to the diet of See also:Augsburg (1555), from which he was immediately recalled by the death of Julius (See also:March 23). In See also:June 1557 Paul IV. imprisoned him in the See also:castle of St Angelo (with others, including Pole, and Foscherari), on suspicion of Lutheran See also:heresy. The See also:prosecution entirely failed, and Morone might have had his See also:liberty. but refused to leave See also:prison unless Paul IV. publicly acknowledged his innocence. He remained incarcerated till the See also:pope's death (Aug. 18, 1559), and took See also:part in the See also:election of See also:Pius IV. See also:Ochino, in the twenty-eighth of his Dialogi See also:XXX., 1563 has a colloquy on the treatment of heretics, between Pius IV. and Morone, in which the latter maintains: " Errantes in viam revocandi, non occidendi." This really hits the position of Morone, a sincere See also:Catholic, to whom persecution was abhorrent. He presided at the Tridentine Council from the loth of See also:April to the 4th of See also:December 1563, and endeavoured to exercise a conciliatory See also:influence. At the end of 1564 Foscherari died, and Morone was reinstated in the see of Modena. On the death of Pius IV.

(1565) he came near to being elected pope. His last days were easy; he died at See also:

Rome on the 1st of December 158o, and was buried at S. Maria sopra See also:Minerva. His writings comprise a few letters an.d orations. His career is that of a good See also:man, struggling for the welfare of his See also:Church against corruptions not essential to the See also:system to which he was devoted. See J. G. Frick, " De Joanne Morono," in J. G. Schelhorn's Amoenitales literariae, vol. xii. (1730) ; " G. See also:Moroni," Dizionario di erudizione (1847) ; N.

Bernabei, Vita del cardinale G. Moroni (1885) ; M. See also:

Young, See also:Life and Times of Aonio See also:Paleario (186o) ; C. Beneath, in Hauck s Realencyklopadie (1903). (A.

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