Biography
He was born at Florence, in Tuscany. He studied at Bologna, Padua, Florence and Rome, and by his learning attracted the patronage of Alexander Farnese, who, as Pope Paul III, made him archbishop of Benevento and later nuncio to Venice, where he fathered an illegitimate child. After the death of his papal patron, he resigned curial office and withdrew to Venice and to the nearby Abbey of Nervesa, where he sought to emulate Petrarch and Boccaccio in a literary career.
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