Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Francesco Soderini

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Francesco Soderini

Role
  
Piero Soderini's brother


Died
  
1524, Rome, Italy

Siblings
  
Piero Soderini

Similar People
  
Piero Soderini, Alfonso Petrucci, Raffaele Riario, Pope Leo X, Pope Paul III

Francesco di Tommaso Soderini (10 June 1453–17 May 1524) was a major diplomatic and Church figure of Renaissance Italy, and brother of Piero Soderini. He was an adversary of the Medici family.

He became Bishop of Volterra in 1478, by nomination, resigning in 1509. In 1487, he was ordained and received his cardinalate in 1503, supported by Louis XII of France. He was Bishop of Cortona from 1504–1505 and held further church posts.

He was complicit in the plot of fellow Cardinals Bandinello Sauli and Alfonso Petrucci against Leo X for the benefit of Cardinal Riario; he went into voluntary exile in 1517, returning to Rome in 1521.

References

Francesco Soderini Wikipedia