Pietro Foscari

[1] Early in his career he became Abbot of the monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Zara.

In the consistory of 10 December 1477 Pope Sixtus IV made Foscari a cardinal priest; this was published on 20 December and Foscari given the titular church of San Nicola fra le Immagini.

[1] In April 1478 he was named apostolic administrator of the metropolitan see of Spalato, a post he occupied until 17 September 1479.

On 13 April 1481 he was named apostolic administrator of the see of Padua and occupied that post until his death.

His bronze and marble tomb by Giovanni di Stefano is preserved in the Costa Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo.

Tomb of cardinal Foscari, Costa Chapel , Santa Maria del Popolo