Bernardo Dovizi
Bernardo da Bibbiena Dovizi (* August 4, 1470 in Bibbiena, † November 9, 1520 in Rome ) was an Italian writer, cardinal and secretary to Pope Leo X.
Life
Bernardo was born into the family of Dovizi, the Lords of Bibbiena. His life is closely linked to the Medici. At 22 he was a member of the embassy, the Pope Alexander VI. on behalf of the city of Florence proves the honor. Two years later he was the ambassador of the Medici at the court of Naples.
He was an intimate friend of Giovanni de ' Medici, and when the Medici were expelled from Florence, he followed him into exile Urbino, the Montefeltro was under the reign of Guidobaldo. Under his successor, Francesco Maria della Rovere, perverse as Bibbiena with major artists such as Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Luciano Laurana. Above all, he made friends with Baldassare Castiglione, who contributed to the success of his only comedy La Calandria 1513, which was premiered in 1513 in Urbino.
Giovanni de ' Medici succeeded in 1512 to bring Florence back under the rule of the Medici. After the death of Pope Julius II in 1513 he was elected Pope Leo X.. In the same year he appointed Bernardo Dovizi treasurer general and prothonotary. After his appointment as cardinal was ordained a deacon after he had assigned in Portico as titular church of Santa Maria Pope. In 1515 he sealed the alliance between Leo X. and Austria, Switzerland, Venice and Milan. The following year, he was the ambassador of Pope Army in Urbino, where he had previously enjoyed great prestige. In 1518 he traveled to France, ostensibly to move the French crusade against the Ottomans, but in reality to France to increase the influence of the Roman Curia. He was now so powerful that it Pope Leo X. jokingly age Papa ( dt: ~ second or antipope ) called. The end of 1519 he became seriously ill and returned to Rome, where he died on 9 November 1520.
The suspicion, Leo X. had let Bernardo Dovizi poison out of fear, he was intriguing against him, to soon to be his successor, has long held, however, could never be proven.
Bernardo da Bibbiena was also a playwright. His comedy La Calandria (1513 ) is among the most important of the 16th century.