PALLADINI, Giacomo. — Theologian and bishop, born in Teramo in 1349, died in Poland in 1417. Archdeacon of Antwerp and, in Rome, secretary for Briefs and the Penitentiary, he was promoted to bishop and subsequently held the sees of Monopoli (1391), Taranto (1400), Florence (1401), and Spoleto (1410), of whose duchy, under Alexander V and John XXIII, he was also governor. Under Martin V he was entrusted with a mission to Poland.
More than for his theological and juridical works, such as: *De Pontificis Maximi monarchia* (no place or date); *De prophetis* (no place or date); *De remediis conversorum* (no place or date); *In libros Sententiarum commentarius* (Augsburg 1472), he became famous for the ascetic novel *Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra J. C.* (ibid. 1472), which enjoyed great popularity, was widely translated, and was eventually placed on the Index.