Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro (22 June 1502 – 1 December 1559) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
[1] At a young age, he was admitted to the court of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, seniore, the future Pope Paul III.
[1] He was the cardinal who announced what measures the Papal States would take to defend itself against possible attack by the Ottoman Empire.
[1] He was on 25 February 1547 named legate to Francis I of France to request that French bishops be allowed to travel to Bologna, where the Council of Trent had been moved.
[1] He returned to France a second time that year to propose a marriage between a French princess and the pope's natural son; Francis I did not look favorably upon this request.