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Which position did Francesco Pisani hold from 1555 to 1557?
Francesco Pisani Francesco Pisani ( 1494 – 28 June 1570 ) was an Italian Cardinal , born in Venice , the son of Alvise Pisani the noted banker , who was Procurator of S . Marks , a member of the Council of Ten , and a Councilor of the Doge of Venice ; and Cecilia Giustinian . He had a brother named Giovanni ( Zuan ) , who also became Procurator of S . Marks and was a Venetian diplomat ; he was married to the sister of Doge Andrea Gritti . He was a strong supporter of the alliance between Venice , France and the Papacy , called the League of Cognac . He shared the imprisonment of Pope Clement VII in the Castel S . Angelo during the Sack of Rome and its aftermath . He spent eighteen months in exile in Naples while Clement made his peace with the Emperor Charles V . Early Benefices . Nothing is known about his education . Francesco had been named a Protonotary Apostolic , the highest grade of monsignor , giving him the rank of a prelate . He was created a cardinal-deacon by Pope Leo X , in the Consistory of 1 July 1517 , at the request of Doge Leonardo Loredan , and assigned the Deaconry of S . Teodoro . The red hat is said to have cost his father 20,000 gold ducats and a ruby . The new cardinal was not in Rome at the time , and the red hat was brought to him in Venice ; it was presented on Sunday , 23 August 1517 . On 27 August 1518 , the Venetian Council voted to give possession of the Benedictine abbey of S . Stefano di Spalato , on the death of its abbot , to Cardinal Pisani . Pisani was appointed Bishop of Padua on 8 August 1524 . In 1526 , during the invasion of the city of Rome on 20-21 September , led by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna , Pisani sheltered the Venetian Ambassador in the Palazzo Venezia . On 28 September 1526 , he was named Administrator of the diocese of Città Nova ( Aemonensis , in Istria ) , which he finally resigned in 1535 . Sack of Rome . On 27 February 1527 , Cardinal Pisani was granted the Deaconry of S . Maria in Porticu . He was promoted Cardinal-Deacon of San Marco , the traditional Venetian church in Rome , which is normally the titulus of a cardinal-priest , on 3 May 1527 by Pope Clement VII , just three days before the Sack of Rome began . He kept the Deaconry of S . Maria in Porticu in commendam . Two days later he was finally consecrated bishop . On the morning of 6 May , as the assault on Rome began , Cardinal Pisani was at the Vatican Palace , to participate in the Popes morning Mass . He was with the Pope to witness the assault , and fled with the Pope through the covered passage to the Castel S . Angelo . He was Pope Clements fellow prisoner in the Castel S . Angelo during the Sack of Rome in May 1527 , and its aftermath . In September 1527 , Giovanni ( Zuan ) Pisani , the brother of Cardinal Francesco , reported to the Signoria of Venice that he had word that the Pope had appointed his brother Archbishop of Vienne , and that the Pope was writing to the King of France for his consent . Pope Clement finally concluded a treaty ( i.e . surrendered ) to the Spanish at the end of November . At the beginning of December 1527 , the two leaders of the French and Venetian factions in the College of Cardinals , Cardinal Pisani and Cardinal Trivulzio , were taken to Gaeta , and from there sent to Naples as hostages for the Popes good behavior . It was reported to the Signoria of Venice that , on 2 December 1527 Cardinal Pisani freely renounced the See of Padua in favor of his nephew Alvise di Giovanni Pisani ; the Signoria ordered the Rector of Padua to hand over the diocese either to Alvise ( Luigi ) Pisani or his Procurator . The younger Alviso was only twelve years old , and his uncle the Cardinal continued to administer the diocese until his own death . On 27 January 1528 , Cardinal Pisani was appointed Administrator of the diocese of Treviso . Nonetheless , Cardinal Francesco was a hostage for the good behavior of the Pope , being kept in Naples for eighteen months . Pisanis father , Alvise , was Commissary General of the French-Venetian armies fighting the Spanish in the Kingdom of Naples , where he died of disease in August 1528 . After the Sack and Prison . In 1529 Cardinal Pisani obtained the Deaconry of Sant Agata in Suburra , probably in commendam , since he continued to style himself Cardinal Deacon of S . Marco . He held the Deaconry until 1545 . On 1 April 1535 Cardinal Francesco Pisano , Cardinal Deacon of S . Marco , who was possessor of the faculty of disposing of certain benefices in the Cathedrals of Padua and Treviso , which had been granted him by Popes Clement VII and Paul III , renounced those privileges in order to conform with the desire of the Signoria of Venice . In 1550 Cardinal Juan Alvarez de Toledo was promoted from the Deaconry of S . Maria in Porticu to the priestly titulus of S . Sisto . Consequently , the Deaconry of S . Maria in Porticu was given back to Cardinal Pisani in commendam , and he held it until he was promoted to the Cardinal-Bishopric of Albano . Cardinal Pisani was nominated Administrator of the diocese of Narbonne by King Henri II of France , which was confirmed on 11 May 1551 . Cardinal Protodeacon . On 10 April 1555 , as senior Cardinal Deacon , Cardinal Pisani crowned Pope Marcellus II ( Cervini ) . It was Wednesday in Holy Week , and therefore the ceremony was very simple . Cervini had been elected earlier on the same day , and immediately consecrated a bishop in the Cappella Paolina by the Bishop of Ostia , Cardinal Gian Pietro Carafa . Pope Marcellus II died during the night between April 30 and May 1 , after a reign of only twenty-two days . On 23 May 1555 , Cardinal Gian Pietro Carafa was elected pope , and chose the name Paul IV . He was crowned on the steps of the Vatican Basilica on Sunday , 26 May , by Cardinal Francesco Pisani , the prior Diaconum . Cardinal Bishop . With his election to the Papacy , Cardinal Carafa left the See of Ostia vacant . It was filled by Cardinal Jean du Bellay . Bellays seat at Porto was then filled by Cardinal Rodolfo Pio de Carpi , Bishop of Tusculum . The then vacant See of Tusculum was taken by Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo , leaving his seat at Albano vacant . Cardinal Pisani was promoted Cardinal-bishop of Albano on 29 May 1555 by Pope Paul IV , then , on the death of Cardinal Alvarez , he was promoted Cardinal-bishop of Frascati ( Tusculum ) on 20 September 1557 . Pius IV promoted him Cardinal-bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina on 18 May 1562 when Rodolfo Pio became Bishop of Ostia , and then Cardinal Pisani himself became Cardinal-bishop of Ostia on 12 May 1564 . Cardinal Francesco Pisani participated as Bishop of Tusculum ( Frascati ) in the Conclave of 1559 , an event that lasted nearly four months . It was notorious for the extreme laxity of security . On 5 December , the traditional rule that went back to Pope Gregory X ( 1274 ) was put into effect , limiting the cardinals to one dish at a meal was put into effect . Finally on Christmas Day , after the French and Spanish factions had both exhausted their resources , Cardinal Giovanni Angelo de Medici was elected by acclamation , and a formal scrutiny was taken the next day . He chose to be called Pius IV . On 10 June 1564 , Pope Pius IV granted the Serene Republic of Venice the Palazzo of S . Marco in Rome , on the condition that the Cardinal of S . Marco could reside there , and that the transfer was not to take place until after the death of Cardinal Francesco Pisani , Bishop of Ostia , or with his consent . Cardinal Pisani also took part in the Conclave of 1565-1566 , this time as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals . He was the senior cardinal present , and the only cardinal who survived from the reign of Leo X . He was considered papabile , but he had no great following . On 7 January 1566 , mostly through the work of Cardinals Carlo Borromeo and Alessandro Farnese , the cardinals elected Cardinal Michele Ghislieri , who took the throne name Pius V . The Cardinal was a patron of the arts . He commissioned a house on the mainland in Montagnana , the Villa Pisani , from Andrea Palladio . He also commissioned an altarpiece for the Cathedral of Montagnana , Santa Maria Assunta , from Paolo Veronese , who was resident in Montagnana in 1555 . The subject was the Transfiguration of Christ . Cardinal Pisani died in Rome , at his palazzo of S . Marco , on 28 June 1570 , at the age of seventy-six , having been a cardinal for fifty-three years . He was buried in the Basilica of S . Marco in Rome . A statue of Cardinal Francesco Pisani , not done from life , is No . 70 in the Prato della valle in Padua ; the statues were carved ca . 1775-1883 . External links . - Villa Pisani , Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio .