Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (born 1500)

Rodolfo Pio da Carpi

16th-century Catholic cardinal

Rodolfo Pio di Savoia, often referred to as Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, was an Italian cardinal, humanist and patron of the arts. The nephew of a diplomat, he himself became a diplomat by the age of thirty, and came to know both Emperor Charles V and King Francis of France, and he…