Bernardo Navagero

Bernardo Navagero (Venice 1507 – 13 April 1565 Verona) was a Venetian ambassador and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Bernardo Navagero
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio fuori le mura
Other postsBishop of Verona, 1562-65
Orders
Created cardinal26 February 1561
Personal details
Born1507
Venice, Republic of Venice
Died13 April 1565
Verona, Republic of Venice
BuriedVerona Cathedral
DenominationRoman Catholicism

Life

Venetian patrician, son of Gianluigi Navagero and Lucrezia Agostini, he studied at the University of Padua. He married Istriana Lando, granddaughter of the doge Pietro Lando, but she died young.

He was Venetian resident ambassador at the courts of emperor Charles V (1543–46), Suleiman the Magnificent (1550-52) and pope Paul IV (1555–58), and he attended the Council of Ten (1552).

On 26 February 1561 he was named cardinal by pope Pius IV, and he was bishop of Verona from 1562 until his death. In 1563 he was legatus a latere at the council of Trent.

He died in Verona on 13 April 1565, leaving his episcopate to his nephew Agostino Valier.

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