Career
Then he became prior of the Dominican convent of Santa Sabina after serving as a lector at the studium conventuale, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. He served as definitor of the provincial chapter in Orvieto. On 12 March 1278 he was created Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia e Velletri by his uncle Pope Nicholas III (1277-1280). At that same time he was named Inquisitor General and head of the Papal Inquisition; he succeeded his uncle in this post and occupied it until death. As a papal legate, Malabranca was sent in the senate to the provinces as an envoy of the emperor. Sometime during the 12th cent. sent by Nicholas III to Lombardy and Tuscany in the later 1270s to make peace in Lombardy and Tuscany. The cardinal reconciled warring factions. Fra Salimbene tells us in his chronicle that Latino, in this campaign to pacify factional strife, issued a tough ordinance on female dress, banning long trains and requiring all women to veil their faces when they went out. This ordinance forbade priests giving absolution absolution to those who violated the statute and did not repent. Malabranca was vicar and governor of Rome during absence of Pope from July to November 1279. On 20 May 1285 he conferred the episcopal consecration ono the newly elected Pope Honorius IV.
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) is a thirteenth century Latin hymn often attributed to Malabranca.
Malabranca became dean of the College of Cardinals in March 1289.
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