Ildebrandino Conti
Catholic bishop of Padua (1319-1352) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ildebrandino Conti (c. 1280 – 2 November 1352) was a Roman nobleman and Catholic prelate who served as the bishop of Padua from 1319 until his death.
Conti largely governed Padua in absentia. He served the papacy in Avignon from 1310 until 1332. He was in Padua in 1332–1333, 1336 and 1339–1343, but it only became his permanent residence after 1347. In the period of 1343–1347, he worked mainly as a papal diplomat, travelling to Perpignan, Genoa, Milan and Naples. He was in Rome during the government of Cola di Rienzo, which he describes in a letter. During his final five years, he undertook two more diplomatic missions, to Hungary in 1349 and Venice in 1350. He attended the jubilee in Rome in 1350.
In his final years, Conti was a friend of the humanist Petrarch, to whom he gave a canonry in Padua. Two of Petrarch's letters to him survive, as does Petrarch's letter of consolation on his death.