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[[Papal Count|Count]] '''Angelo Geraldini''' (1422–1486) was an [[Italians|Italian]] humanist and diplomat, who became a [[bishop]].

He studied [[canon law]] at the [[University of Perugia]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unisi.it/docentes/perugia/docenti-a.html|title=Lo Studio di Perugia – Lista maestri in ordine alfabetico A<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=www.unisi.it|language=IT|accessdate=May 16, 2023}}</ref> and was professor there 1444–46.<ref>
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</ref> In the [[papal curia]] he was appointed [[count palatine]] by [[Pope Callistus III]] in 1455.<ref name="Family">{{cite web |url=https://www.geraldini.com/documenti/disk4/The%20Geraldini%20family |title=Geraldini |website=www.geraldini.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050116012200/https://www.geraldini.com/documenti/disk4/The%20Geraldini%20family%20.doc |archive-date=January 16, 2005}}</ref>

He served under [[Niccolò Fortiguerra]] in the papal forces fighting [[Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta]], and against [[Ferdinand I of Naples|Ferrante]].<ref>
D. S. Chambers, ''Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe'' (2006), p. 90
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He was legal adviser to Cardinal [[Domenico Capranica]].<ref name = "Family"/> In France he governed the [[Venaissin]], at two periods.<ref name = "Family"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/France.html|title=France|website=www.worldstatesmen.org|accessdate=May 16, 2023}}</ref> He went on missions to the [[Council of Basel]] in 1482, and to the court of [[John II of Aragon]], leading to a Spanish ministerial appointment and close involvement in the marriage of the [[Catholic Monarchs]].<ref name = "Family"/>

He was [[bishop of Sessa Aurunca]] in 1465<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13737b.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sessa-Aurunca|website=www.newadvent.org|accessdate=May 16, 2023}}</ref> and [[bishop of Kammin]], from 1482 to 1485.

==References==
*Jürgen Petersohn (1985), ''Ein Diplomat des Quattrocento: Angelo Geraldini (1422-1486)''
*Jürgen Petersohn (editor) (1987), ''Diplomatische Berichte und Denkschriften des Päpstlichen Legaten Angelo Geraldini aus der Zeit seiner Basel-Legation (1482-1483)''

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[[Category:15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland]]
[[Category:Italian Renaissance humanists]]
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