Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
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Rodolfo Pio di Savoia, often referred to as Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, was an Italian cardinal, humanist and patron of the arts. The nephew of a diplomat, he himself became a diplomat by the age of thirty,
Portrait by Francesco de' Rossi, c. 1549
Roman marble bas-relief in the gardens of the Villa Carpi, drawn by the French visitor Pierre Jacques, ca. 1576 (Bibliothèque Nationale)
The so-called Capitoline Brutus, a bronze portrait head, glass-inlaid bone eyes, possibly late 4th to early 3rd centuries BC; bust is later
Diocese of Faenza-Modigliana
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The Diocese of Faenza-Modigliana is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. It was created in 1986 through a merger of the diocese of Faenza and the diocese of Modigliana.
Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
…where he became Doctor of Philosophy, and at Rome, where he took up an ecclesiastical career as a Papal Chamberlain under Pope Clement VII, who made him bishop of Faenza in 1528. There Carpi presided over a synod in 1533. He was absent, however, during most of the sixteen years of his episcopate, and therefore the duties…
Faenza Cathedral
Roman Catholic Diocese of Faenza Modigliana in Italy