Vincenzo Querini
In 1502, Querini went to Rome with Bembo to defend his thesis containing 4,059[c] philosophical and theological propositions before Pope Alexander VI and the College of Cardinals.
[1] On 16 December 1504, Querini was elected ambassador of the Republic of Venice to the court of Philip the Fair, Duke of Burgundy, the husband of Queen Joanna of Castile.
In accordance with his instructions, he refused Maximilian's request that his army be permitted to pass through Venetian territory in support of Pope Julius II against France.
[2] In 1508, around the start of the War of the League of Cambrai, Querini and Giustiniani made a joint decision to dedicate one hour each day to meditation.
He spent January 1512 in Florence recovering from illness, where he was visited by leading local humanists, like Cosimo de' Pazzi [it], Giovanni di Bardo Corsi and Francesco Cattani da Diacceto.
[1][2] At Camaldoli, Querini and Giustiniani successfully opposed the policies of the minister general Pietro Delfino and Basilio Nardi.
The following year the Fifth Lateran Council restored some powers to Delfino and Querini and Giustiniani took the case to arbitration in Rome, where Cardinals Antonio del Monte and Lorenzo Pucci found substantially in their favour in June 1514.
The Libellus ad Leonem X [it] is a treatise on church reform addressed to Leo X, to whom they personally delivered a copy in July 1513.
[2] It argues comprehensive reforms to root out clerical abuses, restore discipline to religious orders, revamp canon law, standardize the liturgy and pursue unity with separated churches in eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
[2] Querini's contribution to the treatise is most evident in its appeal for evangelizing the natives of the New World, about which he had learned during his embassy in Spain.
[4] The Venetian printer Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari included his work in three of his published volumes: Rime diverse di molti eccellentissimi auttori nuovamente raccolti: Libro primo (1545); Rime di diversi nobili huomini et eccellenti poeti nella lingua toscana: Libro secondo (1547); and Rime di diversi eccellenti autori raccolte dai libri da noi altre volte impressi (1553), a collection put together by Lodovico Dolce.
Paolo Manuzio also included some of his work in Lettere volgari di diversi nobilissimi huomini et eccellentissimi ingegni, scritte in diverse materie (1551).
