Stefano Nardini (died 1484) (called the Cardinal of Milan) was an Italian

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and

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Biography

Stefano Nardini was born in Forlì. He received a doctorate of both laws. As a young man, Nardini served in the military, before joining the ecclesiastical estate and traveling to

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. He became a canon of Ferrara Cathedral, and later General Treasurer of the

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. During the pontificate of Pope Callixtus III, he was governor of Romagna. Under Pope Pius II, he was a

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, and later, a protonotary apostolic. He then served as Pius II's

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; the pope wrote to him on 15 July 1459 about the advance of the

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in the

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. On 13 November 1461 he was elected Archbishop of Milan. He occupied that see until his death. He then served as a nuncio in the

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, in which capacity he successfully sought the derogation of a pragmatic sanction that endangered the freedom of the church. In July and August 1464, he accompanied the pope to

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. Following the death of Pope Pius II, he returned to Rome for the papal conclave of 1464 that elected Pope Paul II. During that conclave, the

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had agreed that the number of cardinals should be fixed at 24; Archbishop Nardini and Teodoro Lelio, Bishop of Treviso, advised the new pope in September 1464 not to agree to this limitation. Paul II named Nardini nuncio extraordinary to the

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. From April 1467 to June 1468, he resided in

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as papal legate to the

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. He was present in Rome when Paul II died in July 1471 and the College of Cardinals named him temporary governor of Rome. In the papal conclave of 1471, the College of Cardinals elected Pope Sixtus IV as the new pope. In the consistory of 7 May1473, Sixtus IV made Nardini a cardinal priest; he received the red hat and the '' titulus'' of Sant'Adriano al Foro (a deaconry elevated ''pro illa vice'' to ''titulus''). As cardinal, he built the '' Palazzo Nardini'' on the ''Via del Governo Vecchio'', next to the '' Palazzo Taverna''. On 10 June 1476 he accompanied the pope to

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, and later to

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, because of an outbreak of bubonic plague in Rome. In 1476, he opted for the ''titulus'' of Santa Maria in Trastevere. He was Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 8 January 1481 until 7 January 1482. In 1483, he founded the ''Collegio Nardini''. He participated in the papal conclave of 1484 that elected Pope Innocent VIII. The new pope named him legate to

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, but he died before he could perform his legation. He died in Rome on 22 October 1484. He is buried in St. Peter's Basilica.

References

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