ACCOLTI, PIETRO. - Son of Benedetto and brother of Bernardo, b. in Florence in 1455; he was a lecturer in canon law at Pisa; then, having entered the ecclesiastical career, he became an auditor of the Rota (from at least 1484 until 1505, holding the office of dean of the Rota from 17 Nov. 1500), then bishop of Ancona (from 4 Apr. 1505), and cardinal of the title of St. Eusebius (consistory of 10 March 1511, held by Leo X at Ravenna).

As cardinal he was very influential in the Curia, held various offices (among other things he was the draftsman of the first sketch of the fine Essurge Domine, with which Leo X, on 15 July 1520, condemned Luther), and held important offices: he was successively cardinal vicar (from 1505) and bishop of the suburbicarian dioceses of Albano (from 8 Dec. 1523), of Palestrina (from 20 May 1524), and of Sabina (from 15 June 1524); at this same time he had in administration, for brief periods, the dioceses of Cadiz, Arras, Ancona, Maillezais, Cremona, and Ravenna.

He died in Rome on 12 Dec. 1532, and is buried in the church of St. Mary of the People.

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BIBL.: Pastor, IV, passim: E. Cerchiari, Cappellani Papae et Apostolicae Sedis, II, Rome 1920, p. 74; Eubel, II, 2nd ed., Münster 1923, pp. 12, 107, 283.

Pio Ciprotti

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