Giorgio Andreasi

Giorgio Andreasi (1467–1549) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1544–1549),[1] Apostolic Nuncio to Venice (1540–1542), and Bishop of Chiusi (1538–1544).[2]

Most Reverend Giorgio Andreasi
Bishop of Reggio Emilia
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Reggio Emilia
In office	1544–1549
Predecessor	Marcello Cervini
Successor	Giambattista Grossi
Personal details
Born	1467 Mantua, Italy
Died	22 January 1549 (age 82) Reggio Emilia, Italy
Previous post	Bishop of Chiusi (1538–1544) Apostolic Nuncio to Venice (1540–1542)

Biography

Giorgio Andreasi was born in Mantua, Italy in 1467.[3][4] He had an elder brother, Lodovico, who was born in 1462, and was a Consistorial Advocate in Rome under Pope Julius II; he died in 1506.[5]

He began his career as secretary to Cardinal Francesco Sforza, the brother of the Duke of Milan. He was elected Archpriest of the cathedral Chapter of Milan.[6]

Andreasi was a Protonotary Apostolic, and was the ambassador (orator) of the Duke of Milan to the Emperor Charles V, and then to Pope Clement VII, at least from 1529 to 1532.[7]

On 20 March 1538, he was appointed by Pope Paul III to the diocese of Chiusi.[2][3]

On 22 February 1540, he was appointed by Pope Paul III as Papal Legate in Venice; he was recalled on 18 April 1542.[8]

He attended the Council of Trent.[9]

On 2 April 1544, he was transferred by Paul III to the diocese of Reggio Emilia.[1][3] In 1545 and again in 1548, assisted by his Vicars, Bishop Andreasi made official Visitations of the religious institutions in his diocese. Due to his advancing age, Bishop Andreasi was granted a Coadjutor on 14 December 1545, his own nephew Giovanni Battista Grossi. Grossi was not in major Holy Orders, and consequently his powers were limited.[10]

He died on 22 January 1549 at the age of nearly eighty-two,[1][11] and after a public viewing for two days, his remains were taken to Mantua for burial. He was originally interred in the Carmelite church in Mantua, with a monument by Prospero Clemente of Reggio, but when the Carmelites were suppressed in 1785, his monument was moved to the church of S. Andrea.[12]

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Girolamo Foscari, Bishop of Torcello (1542).[3]

References

1. Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 284.
2. Eubel III, p. 171.
3. Cheney, David M. "Bishop Giorgio Andreasi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}
4. Chow, Gabriel. "Bishop Giorgio Andreasi". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}
5. Alessandro Sordi (1850). Cenni biografici delle dignita e dei canonici della Mantovana Chiesa assunti all'episcopato in patria e fuori dall'ANNO 1077 sino a nostri giorni corredati di documenti e di annotazioni (in Italian). Fratelli Negretti. p. 58.
6. Sordi, p. 59.
7. Ireneo Affò (1780). Vita di Luigi Gonzaga detto Rodomonte principe del Sacro Romano Impero (in Italian). Parma: presso Filippo Carmignani. pp. 93, note (a). Rossana Sacchi (2005). Il disegno incompiuto: la politica artistica di Francesco II Sforza e di Massimiliano Stampa (in Italian). Milan: LED. pp. 59, 119, 121. ISBN 978-88-7916-292-0.
8. Eubel, III, p. 171, note 8. Saccani, p. 122. His tomb inscription says, apud Venetos legati munere functus.
9. Giancarlo Petrella (2004). L'officina del geografo: la "Descrittione di tutta Italia" di Leandro Alberti e gli studi geografico-antiquari tra Quattro e Cinquecento (in Italian). Milan: Vita e pensiero università. p. 211. ISBN 978-88-343-1120-2.
10. Saccani, pp. 121-122.
11. Sordi, p. 60. Saccani, p. 122.
12. Francesco Antoldi (1816). Guida pel forestiere che brama di conoscere le piu pregevoli opere di belle arti nella citta di Mantova (in Italian). Mantua: Erede Pazzoni. pp. 53–54. Monumenti di pittura e scultura trascelti in Mantova o nel suo territorio (in Italian). Mantua: Tip. Virgiliana. 1827. pp. 3–4, with Tav. II.

External links and additional sources

• Saccani, Giovanni (1902). I vescovi di Reggio-Emilia, Cronotassi, Reggio Emilia: Tip. Artigianelli 1902. (in Italian)
• Cheney, David M. "Nunciature to Venice". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}