PRIULI, ALVISE. - Scholar and prelate, b. in Venice at the beginning of the 16th century, d. in Padua on 15 July 1560. He was part of that Paduan circle which formed around Pietro Bembo in the cult and love of Latin and Italian letters: he was a friend of Antonio Brocardo, Trifon Gabriele, Lazzaro Bonamico, Benedetto Lampridio, Camillo Delminio, and above all of Gaspare Contarini (v.); he also had relations with Francesco Maria Molza, Francesco Berni and Bernardo Tasso.
When Reginald Pole came to Padua, P. had him as a guest, and afterwards he was constantly in his household after Pole, created cardinal on 22 Dec. 1536, settled in Rome and when he was repeatedly papal legate. In the circle of Pole, legate at Viterbo, he was in contact with Vittoria Colonna, Marco Antonio Flaminio, Pietro Carnesecchi and others, and he was accused of having upheld with them those doctrines with a Lutheran flavor concerning Grace, on account of which Paul IV later considered him suspected of heresy. Sent in 1542 to prepare the Council at Trent, he was afterwards joined there by Pole, sent as legate for the first time. Both were at Viterbo in 1543; but P. accompanied Pole to Trent when he was there again as legate. He refused to be secretary of the Council and followed Pole when the latter left the Council on 28 June 1546. He was executor of Bembo's will, and from Julius III he received in 1551 the right of succession to the bishopric of Brescia, which in the meantime was conferred on Card. Durante. In 1554 he followed Pole to England and shared with him the severities of Paul IV, on account of which the succession to Brescia was taken from him in 1556. After Pole's death in Nov. 1558, P. remained in England as his executor until the end of 1559. He was in Padua on 3 May 1560 and died there, while his rehabilitation was being arranged. Apart from a few letters, nothing survives of his but some Latin verse compositions.