Marco Barbo

Marco Barbo (* 1420 in Venice, † March 11, 1491 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a son of the Venetian patrician Paolo Barbo.

Ecclesiastical career

His uncle, Pope Paul II appointed him on September 18, 1467 cardinal priest of San Marco. In 1478 he became Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina, however, retained its former title in church as coming, in which also his epitaph is. 1478 he was also Camerlengo of the Sacred College.

Since 1455 he was elec Treviso ( to 1470 ), in 1464 he was also appointed Bishop of Vicenza. 1470 he was raised to the Patriarch of Aquileia. Other supplies were many coming outside Rome; he was from 1468 until his death commendatory of Santo Spirito in Palermo.

From 1464 he was entrusted with diplomatic missions in France and England. In 1472 he was sent as legate to Germany, Hungary and Poland to especially when Emperor Frederick III. to promote a crusade in 1474, he returned to Rome. When Cardinal Barbo is particularly the concerns of English prelates one. In 1467 he became the first cardinal protector of the German Hospital Santa Maria dell'Anima in whose brotherhood he was record in 1479. Among his familiars was the future master of ceremonies of Alexander VI. John Burckard. From 1466 to 1471 Cardinal Barbo was Grand Prior of the Grand Priory of Rome of St John.

In the conclave of 1484, which ended with the election of Innocent VIII, he was in a INVESTIGATION than ten votes, which the secular and political groups urged to cooperate in order to prevent the election of a moral integrity, occurring for the Church reform candidates.

He was a renowned book collector. His estate he intended for charitable purposes.

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