BAROZZI, PIETRO. - Humanist bishop, b. in Venice in 1441, d. in Padua on 10 January 1507. Barely thirty years old, he was appointed bishop of Belluno (1470), then was transferred to Padua (1487), a see in which he remained until his death. An exemplary pastor of deep spirituality, he was also a renowned man of letters and a refined Latin poet, as the hexameters of the Vita Christi, still unpublished, demonstrate. Several of his posthumous opuscules are marked by profound ascetical learning: De modo bene moriendi, published in Italian at Portogruaro (1858), Consolatorii libri tres, Officium ad deprecandam pestilentiam, ad impetrandam pluviam, ad aëri serenitatem posendam. The list of his writings is found in Mazzuchelli, II, pp. 418-21.

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BIBL.: Anon., Memorie storiche sulla vita e sulle opere di P. B., vescovo di Padova, Venice 1801; Dondi dall'Orologio, Dissert, nona sopra la storia ecclesiastica di Padova, Padua 1817; Boll. Diocesano di Padova, 12 (1927), pp. 442-62 (inventory of his books).

Umile Bonzi da Genova

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