Italian arch-bishop who was admitted to the college of noble jurisconsults in Milan about 1508. He was employed by Pope Leo X. on a mission to Germany. Afterward, on going to Denmark, he was employed by King Christian II. to assist in his political schemes. He endeavored to undermine the power of Sten Sture, and to secure the reinstatement of Archbishop Gustav Trolle, who had been imprisoned by Sture; but being won by the latter to take sides against the king, he was obliged to flee into Germany, whence he returned to Italy. In 1523 he was made bishop of Novara, and in 1550 archbishop of Milan. He died at Milan on the 6th of April 1555. He belonged to a distinguished family, other members of which held prominent positions in church and state.
