LIPPOMANO, LUIGI. — Bishop, born in Venice in 1500, died in Rome on 15 Aug. 1559. In July 1542 Paul III sent him as nuncio to Portugal, with the task of distributing to the bishops of the country the bull convening the Council and asking the King of Portugal to have the disputed doctrines studied by
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LIPPI, FILIPPO – Prayer of the child s. Giovanni. Detail of the fresco with the Stories of s. Giovanni Battista in the desert (1452–64) – Prato, Duomo.
However, a few months later he returned to Rome because he was not welcome at the Portuguese court on account of his friendship with Cardinal Silva.
In 1551–52 he was one of the presidents of the Council of Trent. Bishop of Verona from 1548 to 1558, he was legate in Germany together with Bertano and Pighini. Appointed by Paul IV as nuncio to Poland on 13 June 1555, he carried out fruitful activity there against the Protestants, who had become highly influential. After L.’s nunciature, the Holy See became fully aware of the importance of Protestant penetration into Poland and from then on arranged to be permanently represented by a nuncio. Returning to his homeland in 1557, he became bishop of Bergamo. Among his works are: Confirmazione e stabilimento di tutti li dogmi cattolici, con la subversione di tutti i fondamenti... dei moderni eretici (Venice 1553) and Historiae de vitis sanctorum cum scholiis (8 vols., Venice–Rome 1551–60), which served as the basis for Surius’s Vitae Sanctorum.
