Bernardo Clesio

{{More citations needed|date=February 2023}}{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | death_date = {{death date and age|1539|7|30|1484|3|11|df=y}} | successor = [[Cristoforo Madruzzo]] | term_end = 1539 | term_start = 1514 | other_post = [[Santo Stefano al Monte Celio|Cardinal-priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio]] | death_place = [[Brixen]] | birth_place = [[Cles]], [[Prince-Bishopric of Trent]] | ordination = 8 September 1515 | birth_date = {{birth date|1484|3|11|df=y}} | honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] | created_cardinal_by = [[Clement VII]] | rank = Cardinal-priest | consecration = 10 December 1515 | consecrated_by =[[Michele Iorba]] | cardinal = 9 March 1530 | church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] | image_size = | image = Bartholomäus Bruyn d. Ä. 010.jpg | caption = Portrait by [[Barthel Bruyn the Elder]] | title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], [[Bishop of Trento]] | predecessor = [[George II von Neideck]] }}

'''Bernardo Clesio''' ({{Langx|de|Bernhard von Cles}}; 1 March 1484 – 30 July 1539) was an Italian [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], bishop, diplomat, [[humanist]] and [[botanist]].

Born in [[Cles]], in the [[Prince-Bishopric of Trent]], today [[Trentino]], he graduated from the [[University of Bologna]]. He later became [[Prince-Bishop of Trent]] (1514–1539)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fenlon |first=Iain |date=1996 |editor-last=Dalmonte |editor-first=Rossana |title=Trent -- Its Place in Musical History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3128265 |journal=Early Music |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=498–500 |doi=10.1093/earlyj/XXIV.3.498 |jstor=3128265 |issn=0306-1078|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=McIver |first=Katherine A. |date=1992 |title=Vedere la Musica: Depictions of Music Making in the Sixteenth Century Italian Villa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41604964 |journal=RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=3–11 |jstor=41604964 |issn=0360-8727}}</ref> and of [[Prince-Bishopric of Brixen|Brixen]] (1539), cardinal, and chancellor of [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand I]].

He was a key contributor to the organization of the [[Council of Trent]] and greatly embellished and expanded [[Trento]] in the process. He commissioned the rebuilding of the [[Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Trento]], enlarged the [[Castello del Buonconsiglio]] and called upon [[Renaissance]] artists such as [[Dosso Dossi]] and [[Romanino]] to decorated the additions.

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==External links== *{{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=CLES, Bernhard von (1485-1539)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1530.htm#Cles|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |accessdate=|publisher=[[Florida International University]]|oclc=53276621}}

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