PALLADINI, GIACOMO. – Theologian and bishop, b. at Teramo in 1349, d. in Poland in 1417. Archdeacon of Antwerp and, in Rome, secretary for Briefs and at the Penitentiary, upon being promoted to the episcopate he successively occupied the sees of Monopoli (1391), Taranto (1400), Florence (1401), and Spoleto (1410), whose duchy, under Alexander V and Giovanni XXIII, he also governed. Under Martino V he was entrusted with a mission to Poland.
More than for his theological and juridical works, such as: De Pontificis Maximi monarchia (s. n. t.); De prophetis (s. n. t.); De remediis conversorum (s. n. t.); In libros Sententiarum commentarius (Augsburg 1472), he became famous for the ascetical novel Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferis contra J. C. (ibid. 1472), which enjoyed great popularity and was translated many times, and was eventually placed on the Index.