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SADOLETO, JACOPO (1477-1547)

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SADOLETO, JACOPO (1477-1547) , See also:Italian humanist and churchman, was See also:born at See also:Modena in 1477, and, being the son of a noted jurist, was designed for the same profession. He gave himself, therefore, to humanistic studies and acquired reputation as a Latin poet, his best-known piece being one on the See also:group of See also:Laocoon. Passing to See also:Rome, he obtained the patronage of See also:Cardinal Carafa and adopted the ecclesiastical career. See also:Leo X. See also:chose him as his secretary along with Pietro See also:Bembo, and in 1517 made him See also:bishop of See also:Carpentras. Sadoleto had a remarkable See also:talent for affairs and approved himself a faithful servant of the papacy in many difficult negotiations under successive popes, especially as a peacemaker; but he was no bigoted See also:advocate of papal authority, and the See also:great aim of his See also:life was to win back the Protestants by peaceful persuasion—he would never countenance persecution—and by putting See also:Catholic See also:doctrine in a conciliatory See also:form. Indeed his See also:chief See also:work, a Commentary on See also:Romans, though meant as a prophylactic against the new doctrines, gave great offence at Rome and See also:Paris. Sadoleto was a diligent and devoted bishop and See also:left his See also:diocese with reluctance even after he was made cardinal (1536). His piety and tolerant spirit, combined with his reputation for scholarship and eloquence and his See also:diplomatic abilities, give him a unique See also:place among the churchmen of his See also:time. He died in 1547• His collected See also:works appeared at See also:Mainz in 1607, and include, besides his theologico-irenical pieces, a collection of Epistles, a See also:treatise on See also:education (first published in 1533), and the See also:Phaedrus, a See also:defence of See also:philosophy, written in 1538. The best collection is that published at See also:Verona (1737–1738) ; it includes the life by Fiordibello. See also Pericaud, Fragments biographiques sur See also:Jacob Sadolet (See also:Lyons, 1849) ; Joty, Etude sur Sadolet (See also:Caen, 1857) ; Balan, Monumenta, vol. i. (See also:Innsbruck, 1885) ; Rochini's edition of the letters (Modena, 1872).

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