Ermolao Barbaro

Ermolao Barbaro, in Latin Hermolaus Barbarus (21 May 1454[1] – 14 June 1493), was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, diplomat and churchman.

[2][3][5] Two years later he revisited Venice, but returned to Padua when the plague broke out in his native city.

[2][3][4][5] It was illegal under Venetian law for ambassadors to accept gifts or positions of foreign heads of state.

[2][3][4][5] Pope Innocent and his successor Alexander VI threatened to excommunicate Barbaro if he resigned as Patriarch of Aquileia.

[4][5] Barbaro then lived in a Roman villa on the Pincian Hill belonging to his brothers Daniele and Ludovico.

[2] The work was written in only twenty months and dedicated to the newly elected Pope Alexander VI.

[3] Barbaro's work De Officio Legati was representative of a revolution in the conduct of diplomacy which took place during the Renaissance.