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JACOPO SADOLETO

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Cardinal, humanist, and reformer, b. at Modena, 1477; d. at Rome, 1547. His
father, a distinguished lawyer, intended him for his own profession; but Jacopo
devoted himself to classical and philosophical studies. At Rome he enjoyed the
favour of Cardinal Caraffa, and afterwards of Leo X, who made him his secretary.
In 1517 he was appointed Bishop of Carpentras near Avignon. Unlike many of the
humanists, he was a man of blameless life and attentive to all his duties as a
priest and bishop. It was only at the express command of the successive popes
whom he served that he would consent to absent himself even for a time from his
diocese. In him were combined in an eminent degree the qualities of a man of
piety, a man of letters, and a man of action. As a poet, orator, theologian, and
philosopher he was in the foremost rank of his time. His poem on the recently
discovered Laocoön first brought him to the notice of the learned. His mild and
gentle character, shunning all extremes, and his profound learning fitted him
for the difficult task of conciliating the Protestants. Indeed, his commentary
on the Epistle to the Romans was considered to favour them too much, and the
publication of it was forbidden at Rome until it had undergone correction. He
would have nothing to do with persecuting the heretics. In 1536 he was summoned
to Rome by Paul III to be a member of a special commission for the reform of the
Church. In the following December he received the cardinal's hat, at the same
time as Caraffa (afterwards Paul IV) and Pole, also members of the commission.
With Cardinal Contarini, the president of the commission, they drew up the
famous "Consilium de emendanda Ecclesia", which they presented to the pope.
Sadoleto was sent as legate to Francis I to bring about a reconciliation between
him and Charles V (1542), but his mission failed. After 1543, when a coadjutor
was appointed to govern Carpentras, he was constantly at the side of Paul III,
ever urging the pontiff in the path of peace and reform. Sadoleto's works were
published at Verona in four volumes (1737-8), and at Rome (1759).

SOURCES

Joly, Etude sur Sadolet (Caen, 1856); Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura
italiana, XVIII (Venice, 1824); Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, IV-V (Freiburg,
1906-9). It is only by perusing this last-named work that the extent of
Sadoleto's activity and influence in the counter-Reformation can be estimated.

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APA citation. Scannell, T. (1912). Jacopo Sadoleto. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13324a.htm

MLA citation. Scannell, Thomas. "Jacopo Sadoleto." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13324a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Jan Pendergrass.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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