NUMAI, CRISTOFORO. - Cardinal, born at Forlì, of a noble family, in an unknown year; died at Ancona on 21 March 1528.
Having entered the Friars Minor, he moved to Paris, where he obtained a degree in theology at the Sorbonne and became counsellor to King Francesco I and confessor to Queen Claudia. Commissary (1512) and vicar general (1514) of the Order; at the most general Chapter, convened by Leone X definitively to settle the question of the juridical existence of the Conventuals and the Observants (May 1517), he was elected minister general of the entire Order, an office he held until July 1518. Made cardinal (July 1517), he accepted only at the Pope’s command. He was bishop of Alatri and subsequently also of Isernia (1522). He suffered greatly during the sack of Rome in 1527. Humble and learned, he was a famous preacher.