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Lottini, Giovanni Francesco, 1512-1572

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Personal name headingLottini, Giovanni Francesco, 1512-1572
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Variant(s)Lottini, Gio. Francesco (Giovanni Francesco), 1512-1572
Lottini da Volterra, Giouanfrancesco, 1512-1572
Lottini, Gio. Franc., 1512-1572
Lottini, Giovanfrancesco, 1512-1572
Other standard no.76414006
Associated countryItaly
Associated placeConversano (Italy)
LocatedFlorence (Italy) Rome (Italy) Siena (Italy) Padua (Italy) Pisa (Italy)
Birth date1512
Death date1572
Place of birthVolterra (Italy)
Place of deathRome (Italy)
Found inSansovino, F. Propositioni overo considerationi in materia di cose di stato [MI] 1588: t.p. (m. Gio. Francesco Lottini)
CSt/G-K files (hdg.: Lottini, Giovanni Francesco, 1512-1572)
Auuedimenti ciuili, 1574: t.p. (m. Giouanfrancesco Lottini da Volterra)
De electione summi pontif[ici] aliisq[ue] materijs m[anu]s[cript], 1700s?: fol. 244r (Discorso estabilissimo di M. Gio. Franc. Lottini)
Bibliothè€que nationale de France, online authority file, viewed September 15, 2023: (Lottini, Giovanni Francesco (1512-1572); born 1512 in Volterra, Italy; died August 1572 in Rome; adventurer, schemer, apostolic protonotary, chaplain of S. Giovanni in Laterano in 1549, and bishop of Conversano in 1560)
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Wikipedia, viewed September 15, 2023: (Giovanni Francesco Lottini; 1512-August 1572; Italian politician and writer; born in Volterra; blamed for or involved in several assassination attempts and purported poisonings; acted as secretary to Cosimo I de Medici; later secretary to Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora; appointed canon of Abbey Hill of Piedmont; in 1559 secretary to Giovanni Angelo de'Medici who became Pius IV; in 1560 Pius IV appointed him bishop of Conversano, which he refused)
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Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, 2006, viewed online September 15, 2023: (Lottini, Giovanfrancesco; born in 1512 in Volterra; moved to Rome in 1530 and from there to Siena where he studied logic and philosophy; later studied in Pavia, Bologna, and Padua; secretary to Cosimo de Medici; may have organized assassination of Lorenzo de Medici; became a canon of S. Giovanni in Laterano 1548; became a frequent participant in papal conclaves; said to have killed Giovan Francesco Giugni in 1555; imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo in 1555 for the affair of the galleys and charged with Lutheranism, but eventually released; friend of Michelangelo; in 1560 Pius IV appointed him bishop of Conversano, a position he renounced on January 20, 1561; in February 1561 he returned to Tuscany, first to Volterra and then to Florence, where he remained at least until 1563; returning to Rome in 1564; author of Discorso sopra le attioni del conclave and Avvedimenti civili, the latter was published posthumously; he died in 1573, probably in Rome)
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