1. Filippo Archinto, born in Milan, was an Italian lawyer, papal bureaucrat, bishop, and diplomat.
17 Facts About Filippo Archinto
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Filippo Archinto served as Governor of Rome and then papal Vicar of Rome.
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Filippo Archinto was personally esteemed both by the Emperor Charles V and by Pope Paul III.
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Filippo Archinto was Bishop of Borgo San Sepolcro, Bishop of Saluzzo, and Archbishop of Milan.
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Filippo Archinto was the second son of Cristoforo Archinto, whose ancestor Manfredo had helped found the monastery of Chiaravalle near Milan in 1135, and Maddalena Torriani.
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Filippo Archinto's brothers were Giovanni Battista, who was a soldier and an ambassador of the Emperor Charles V, and Alessandro, who became a regional quaestor in the city of Milan.
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Filippo Archinto returned to Pavia, and then spent some time studying at Bologna, though he returned to Pavia to take his degree.
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Filippo Archinto returned to Milan and was admitted to the College of Legists.
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Filippo Archinto then attended the Coronation of the Emperor in Bologna as a representative of Milan.
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In 1535, on the death of Francesco II, the last of the Sforza dukes of Milan, Filippo Archinto was chosen by the city for an embassy to inform the Emperor Charles V, and to negotiate the future of Milan as part of the Emperor's domains.
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Filippo Archinto appointed Archinto to an embassy to Pope Paul III, to negotiate the succession to the Marquisate of Monferrato.
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Filippo Archinto revealed such talents for diplomacy that Pope Paul III named him a Protonotary Apostolic partecipante.
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Filippo Archinto was appointed to a "Commission of vigilance," whose purpose was to collect public and private information about the doings of the council and of its members.
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Filippo Archinto had a Vicar General Silvestro Tapparelli, who was a protonotary apostolic, who administered the diocese when Archinto was in Rome.
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From 1554 to 1556, Filippo Archinto served as papal Nuncio with the authority of a Legatus a latere to the Serene Republic of Venice.
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Pope Paul and the Spanish were on bad terms and the Spanish governor of Milan, Juan de Fonseca, refused to admit the new archbishop to the city, alleging that he had no instructions from the King on the subject of Filippo Archinto, and needed to send to Spain for new orders.
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Filippo Archinto therefore withdrew to Bergamo, whose bishop, Victor Superantius, had been deposed for heresy.