Battista Pallavicino Explained

Type:	Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:	Most Reverend
Battista Pallavicino
Bishop of Reggio Emilia
Church:	Catholic Church
Diocese:	Diocese of Reggio Emilia
Term:	1444–1466
Predecessor:	Giacomo Antonio della Torre
Successor:	Antonio Beltrando
Death Date:	12 May 1466
Death Place:	Reggio Emilia, Italy

Battista Pallavicino (died 12 May 1466) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1444–1466).^[1]

Biography

On 19 October 1444, Battista Pallavicino was appointed during the papacy of Pope Eugene IV as Bishop of Reggio Emilia.^[2]

Pallavicino died suddenly on 12 May 1466 of apoplexy (brain hemorrhage). He was buried in the crypt of the cathedral.^[3]

Works

Battista Pallavicino was the author of a number of works:^[4]

• Baptistae Marchionis Pallavicini Episcopi Regiensis Historia flendae Crucis, et funeris Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ad Eugenium IV S. P. Parma 1477.
• Epistola ad Albertum Parisium Reipubl. Bonon. Cancellarium. Regii die 1 Decembris 1465.
• Baptistae Pallavicini Epistola ad patruum suum, data in Siena l'anno 1443.
• Ejusdem B. M. P. Fabula. It begins "Jam senior dura forte jacet leo". [twenty-eight poems in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
• B. Palavicini Ep. Regien. ad Pium II Pont. Max. Gratulatio cum pollicitatione liberali. It begins, "Maxime Christicolum recto quo bella jubente".
• Baptistae Marchionis Pallavicini Episcopi Regien. Salutano cum deprecatione in Mariam gratia plenam ad illustrem atque inclytum D. Nicolaum Esten. It begins, "Virgo decus mundi",

Notes and References

1. Book: Eubel, Konrad. Konrad Eubel

   . Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi . Konrad Eubel. II. 222. 1914. Libreria Regensbergiana. Münster. second. (in Latin)

2. Web site: Cheney . David M.. Bishop Battista Pallavicino . Catholic-Hierarchy.org. June 16, 2018.
3. Saccani, p. 107. Eubel, p. 222.
4. Affò, II, pp. 251-258.