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ALIDOSI, FRANCESCO. - Cardinal, b. at Castel del Rio (Imola) between 1450 and 1460, d. at Ravenna in 1511. Secretary and adviser to Card. Giuliano della Rovere, he was created cardinal by him in 1505, when he ascended to the pontificate. Legate at Bologna in 1508, he sought by every means to eradicate the Bentivoglio party, thereby earning persistent hatreds that are reflected in the judgments passed upon him by many contemporaries. Denounced to the Pope, but reconfirmed despite the accusations, he came into conflict with Francesco Maria della Rovere, duke of Urbino, commander-in-chief of the papal forces in the Pope’s war against Ferrara, and was arrested by him in 1510 on suspicion of secret
(phot. Pont. Comm. Arch. Sacra) ALICULA — Man wearing an alicula. Rome, Tomb of Trebius Justus on the Via Latina.relations with the enemy. Saved once again by the benevolence of Giulio II, he fled from Bologna upon the entry of the French troops (1511), and took refuge at Ravenna with the Pope. There, encountered by the duke of Urbino, who held him responsible for treason and was perhaps jealous of his continual favour, he was killed by him on the public road. A highly controversial figure, variously judged, on whom no definitive word has yet been spoken.
BIBL.: L. Frati, Il cardinale F. A. e Francesco Maria della Rovere, in Arch. Stor. Ital., 47 (1911), pp. 144–58; Pastor, III, pp. 763–65, 774–76; P. Richard, s. V. in DHG, II, cols. 447–48; R. Galli, s. v., in Enc. Ital., II, pp. 495–96. Luigi Michelini Tocci
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“ALIDOSI, FRANCESCO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 538. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/alidosi-francesco.
