Badia, Tommaso - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 404

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

BADIA, TOMMASO. - Dominican, cardinal, born in Modena in 1483, died in 1547. Professor of theology at Ferrara, Venice, and Bologna, he was Master of the Sacred Palace and advisor to Cardinal Contarini at the Diet of Regensburg (1541). Created cardinal on July 7, 1542, he had
BADIA A SETTIMO — Façade and bell tower, now destroyed (13th century).

He took a large part in drafting the Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum praelatorum de emendanda Ecclesia, ordered by Paul III (Rome 1538). He was Grand Inquisitor under Paul III. In the Prolegomena to the third part of the Epistolae of Cardinal Reginald Pole, edited by Querini (Brescia 1744–57), one of his letters to Cardinal Contarini on the Diet of Worms is included.

BIBL.: Ch. L. Richard, Biblioth. sacrée, III, Paris 1822, p. 421; P. Mandonnet, s. V. in DThC, II, col. 33; M. Th. Diodier, s. V. in DHG, VI, col. 145; A. Walz, I Cardinali domenicani, Rome 1940, p. 34. Benedetto Gioia