Cardinal Bishop Giles of Viterbo, 17th-century fresco in the Priori Palace, Viterbo, Italy.
Province
Holy See
Diocese
Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania
Installed
2 December 1523
Term ended
12 November 1532
Predecessor
Ottaviano Visconti Riario
Successor
Giampietro Grassi
Other post(s)
Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine (June 1507 – February 1519)
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (8 August 1524 – 19 December 1530)
Bishop of Lanciano (10 April 1532 – 12 November 1532)
Orders
Ordination
c. 1495
Consecration
December 1523
Created cardinal
1 July 1517
Rank
Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Born
unknown
1472 (1472)
Viterbo, Papal States
Died
November 12, 1532(1532-11-12) (aged 59–60) Rome, Papal States
Buried
Basilica of Sant'Agostino, Rome, Italy
Nationality
Papal States
Parents
Lorenzo Antonini & Maria del Testa
Giles Antonini, O.E.S.A.,[1] commonly referred to as Giles of Viterbo (Latin: Ægidius Viterbensis, Italian: Egidio da Viterbo), was a 16th-century Italian Augustinian friar, bishop of Viterbo and cardinal, a reforming theologian, orator, humanist and poet. He was born in Viterbo and died in Rome.
^"His family name was Antonini, not Canisio as it sometimes appears", reports John W. O'Malley, S.J., in Giles of Viterbo on Church and Reform (Studies in Renaissance thought, 54, Leiden) 1968:4 note 1.
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liked". It has been suggested that Augustinian friar and cardinal GilesofViterbo could have influenced the ceiling's theological layout. Many writers...
finally met on 3 May, 1512 at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. The scholar Egidio da Viterbo (GilesofViterbo) gave an inspiring opening address. Participants...
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his way to the Diet at Mantua. GilesofViterbo spent four years at Lecceto, before responsibilities as vicar-general of the order drew him away. Between...
and Levita would be the connection between Schwartz and Paul Fagius, GilesofViterbo, Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, and we may speculate that he met Johann...
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civil life of the clergy and the power of the laity as used against the clergy and church property. Worthy of high respect was Ægidius ofViterbo who governed...
Aristotle's work. Giles, whose work had been condemned, disappeared from the Parisian academic scene. There is no information remaining concerning Giles between...
later 16th century, and was several times reprinted. Alongside James ofViterbo, Gilesof Rome, and Alvarus Pelagius, Augustinus was among the leading pro-papal...
tensions) between France and England. Siege ofViterbo: Emperor Frederick II besieges Viterbo on request of the rebel citizens. The defenders are able...
confraternities of St. Rose ofViterbo, The Holy Cross of Lucca, St. Rosalia of Palermo, St. Bartholomew, St. Alexander, etc. Embracing the confraternities of Sts...
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