Marino Ascanio Caracciolo
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Marino Ascanio Caracciolo (born 1468 in Naples in Italy, died 28th January 1538 in Milan) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was part of the Roman Curia.
He was Pope Leo X's nuntius to Emperor Maximillian I at the Diet of Augsburg. At the Diet of Worms, he worked with Girolamo Aleandro on behalf of the Catholic faith, and persuaded the Diet to order Martin Luther's works burnt. Later, he was a go-between, between King Henry VIII of England and Emperor Karl V, and managed to negotiate a peace between the two monarchs. He was twice Emporial representative at the Venetian senate, and managed to maintain the alliance between the Emperor and the Senate. He was Papal nuntis to the Emporial palace 1520-1523.
In January 1524, he became bishop of Canatia in Sicily, but he shared the post with his brother Scipione CAracciolog. After his brother died in October 1529 he was named bishop of Catania, but again shared the post (March 1530) with his brother Ludovico Caracciolo.
He was made cardinal in pectore in the consistory of the 21st May 1535 by Pope Paul III, published in the consistory of the 31st May 1535.
Together with Cardinals Agostino Trivulzio and Francisco Quiñones he was the legate in the peace negotiations between King Ferdinand of the Romans, and François I of France in June 1536.
After bishop Ludovico's death in September 1536, he was for the third time named as bishop of Catania. But again, (January 1537), he now shared the post with Nicola Maria Caracciolo.
The other cardinals in the same family were Innico Caracciolo the elder (created 1666), Innico Caracciolo the younger (1715), Niccolò Caracciolo (1715), Giovanni Costanzio Caracciolo (1759), Diego Innico Caracciolo (1800), and Filippo Giudice Caracciolo, Orat. (1833).
