SPECIANO, CESARE. - Bishop and nuncio, b. at Cremona in 1539, d. there on 20 Aug. 1607.

First canon of the Milanese Metropolitan chapter with St. Charles Borromeo, of whom he was a close friend. Sent to Rome, he held various offices; then Pius V assigned him as consultor to the nunciature of Madrid, and Gregory XIII created him bishop of Novara in 1584. He was then nuncio to Philip II for two years, and in 1591 Gregory XIV transferred him to the bishopric of Cremona.

Shortly afterward Clement VIII sent him to Prague as legate to the emperor Rudolf II, and here he remained from 1592 to 1598, carrying on intense activity for ecclesiastical instruction and for the conversion of the Utraquists and the Hussites. Having returned to Cremona, he devoted himself to the care of souls and founded a college of Jesuits. He wrote a work (Propositioni christiane) printed by Muratori in 1735.

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BIBL.: Ughelli, IV, pp. 617 and 726; Pastor, X and XI, see indexes; N. Mosconi, Le Propositioni cristiane morali e civili di C. S., in Conversium, 3 (1931), pp. 347-63; id., La nunziatura del cremonese C. S. negli anni 1586-88 alla corte di Filippo II, Cremona 1939.

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