Francesco Pisani

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Francesco Pisani (1494-1570) was an Italian Cardinal, from 1517.[1]

He was bishop of Padua in 1524, bishop of Narbonne in 1551, bishop of Albano in 1555, Bishop of Frascati in 1557, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1562,and bishop of Ostia in 1564.

He was a patron of the arts. The Villa Pisani was built for him, by Andrea Palladio[2]. He commissioned a Paolo Veronese altarpiece for Montagna in the same years, the early 1550s[3].

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  1. ^ Consistory - 1517 [Catholic-Hierarchy]
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  3. ^ Capodanno del Millennio - Montagnana - The Churches

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