CARVAJAL, BERNARDINO LÓPEZ de. - Cardinal, b. at Plasencia in Extremadura in 1456, d. at Rome on 16 Dec. 1523. A master in theology and papal cubicularius, he was successively bishop of Astorga (27 Aug. 1488), of Badajoz (23 Jan. 1489) and of Cartagena (27 March 1493); he was created cardinal on 20 Sept. 1493 by Alexander VI and sent as legate to Germany in July 1496.

A spirit well disposed to reform, but haughty and impatient, he fell out with Julius II; in Feb. 1504, he let Cesare Borgia, who had been entrusted to his custody, escape; in Sept. 1510 he was one of the five cardinals who set themselves against the Pope following the peace the latter had made with Venice to the detriment of France, and with them on 16 May 1511 he dared to convoke a council at Pisa, under the pretext of reform, summoning the Pope to it as well. On 24 Oct. the latter excommunicated C. together with two of his colleagues. When the Council of Pisa proved vain, C. sought refuge in France. But as soon as Leo X was elected pope, he set about negotiating with him. C. then recognized as legitimate the Lateran Council that Julius II had set against that of Pisa, and in the Consistory of 27 June 1513, after making a promise of obedience, he was absolved and restored to favor, receiving the red hat again.

Thanks to the precedence he had not lost, he became bishop of Ostia on 24 July 1521. His literary activity is attested by his discourses, among them the one for the Conclave of 1492, which was printed.

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BIBL.: Pastor, III, IV, V, passim: H. Rossbach, Das Leben und die politisch-kirchliche Wirksamkeit des B. L. de C. und das schismatische Concilium Pisanum, Breslau 1892; P. Paschini, Roma nel Rinascimento, Bologna 1940, p. 337 ff.; id., Il carteggio fra il card. Marco Barbo e Giov. Lorenzi, Città del Vaticano 1948, p. 121.

Niccolò del Re

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