Life
After studying canon law at the University of Padua he was archdeacon at Aversa in 1384, and held several posts at the Papal Curia before being appointed successively bishop of Monopoli (1391), bishop of Taranto (1400), bishop of Florence (1401), and bishop of Spoleto (1410), where, as bishop, he was also Papal governor of the Duchy of Spoleto. At the Council of Pisa (June 1409) in the conclave that elected Alexander V, he was among the followers of Gregory XII and Benedict XIII.
In 1417 Pope Martin V sent him as legate to Poland, where he died the same year.
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“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
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