Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro

Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro, venez. Federigo Corner (* November 16, 1579 in Venice, † June 5, 1653 in Rome ) was an Italian Cardinal and Patriarch of Venice.

Life

Federico Cornaro was a scion of the powerful Venetian family Cornaro ( venez. Cornèr ). His father was the Doge Giovanni Cornaro I., his uncle, the Bishop of Treviso Francesco Cornaro, the 1596 Cardinal in Rome. Thither went Federico age 17 to study, but returned after the death of his uncle in 1598 returned to Venice and continued his studies at the University of Padua on. There he founded in 1599 with Galileo Galilei and 24 other companions in his house the Accademia dei Ricovrati.

According to the legal promotion Cornaro went back to Rome and Chierico di camera Clement VIII was from 1623 he had successively held the sees of Bergamo, Vicenza and Padua before he patriarch of his native city of Venice was 1631.

Already in 1626 he was appointed cardinal - against the resistance of the Senate of Venice, according to its principles a Dogensohn could not accept papal offices. However, the waves smoothed out, and in 1632 he was able to move as patriarch in San Pietro di Castello.

When Conclave 1644 Cornaro sat for the election of Innocent X. a. In the same year he resigned because of the strained relations between Venice and Rome to his patriarchate and instead pursued under the pontificate of Urban VIII his career at the Curia. His goal, to ascend the throne of Peter himself, was not lost on his contemporaries.

Cornaro resided in the Palazzo Venezia and distinguished himself as a financially strong patron of representative construction projects. As a family grave lay he gave in 1647 at Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Cornaro Chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in order. It was completed a year before his death and he was buried in it.