Francesco Pisani

Francesco Pisani (1494-1570) was an Italian Cardinal, from 1517.Consistory - 1517 [Catholic-Hierarchy]
He was bishop of Padua in 1524, bishop of Narbonne in 1551, bishop of Albano in 1555, bishop of Frascati in 1557, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1562,and bishop of Ostia in 1564.
He was a patron of the arts. He commissioned a house in Montagnana, the Villa Pisani, from Andrea Palladio.
[http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=2&lingua=e
 Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio] The Pisani family has a number of villas named after them, including two by Andrea Palladio. He also commissioned a Paolo Veronese altarpiece for Montagna cathedral in the same years, the early 1550sCapodanno del Millennio - Montagnana - The Churches.
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==External links==
*Biography
*Hierarchy page
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Category:Cardinal-bishops of Porto
Category:Bishops of Narbonne
Category:Bishops of Padua
Category:16th-century Italian people
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