Federigo Fregoso, was an Italian nobleman, prelate and general.
Occupation
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop, writer
Position held
archbishop of Salerno, cardinal, diocesan bishop, diocesan bishop
Citizenship
Republic of Genoa
Born
1480
Died
1541
Overview
Federigo Fregoso (c. 1480, Genoa – 22 July 1541), was an Italian nobleman, prelate and general.
Early life and family
Fregoso was born to the Fregoso family, a family who in the late fourteenth century gave two Doges of Genoa to the Republic of Genoa. Federigo was the son of Agostino Fregoso, governor of Genoa in 1488 for Ludovico il Moro, and of Gentilla de Montefeltro, niece of Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino. His brother, Ottaviano Fregoso, was Doge of Genoa.
Fregoso spent his youth at the court of his uncle, the Duke of Urbino, and after taking Catholic orders, received in 1507 from Pope Julius II the Archbishopric of Salerno. Ferdinand II of Aragon having refused to recognize him because of his sympathies with France, the Pope promised him the See of Gubbio. At the court of Urbino, Federigo had received a good classical education, and had allied himself with such humanists as Pietro Bembo and Baldassarre Castiglione.
Military career
