DELFINO, CESARE PIETRO MICHELE. - Controversialist, b. at Parma on an uncertain date, d. at Rome in 1566. He devoted himself to medicine and the sciences and then to theological studies. He resided for some years in England and in Germany, spreading Catholic thought. Persecuted and stripped of his possessions, he was forced to return to Venice, which gave him a good welcome.

He sought the favor of Paul III and of Julius III, to whom he dedicated a short work: De proportione Papae ad concilium et de utroque eiusdem principatu certissima et novissima decisio (Parma 1550), against the caesaropapist ambitions of Henry VIII. It is found in G. T. Roccaberri, Bibliotheca maxima pontificum, VII, Rome 1698, pp. 8-26. Previously he had written songs in honor of the Madonna, Mariados (3 vols., Venice 1537) and De summo romani pontificis primatu et de ipsius temporali ditione demonstratio (ibid. 1547).

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BIBL.: I. Affo-A. Pezzana, Memorie degli scrittori e letterati parmegiani, IV, Parma 1796, pp. 95-107; VI, ibid. 1825, pp. 519, 967 and 1015; G. B. Janelli, Dizionario biografico dei parmegiani illustri e benemeriti, Genoa 1877, p. 152; Hurter, III, col. 49.

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