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Marco Barbo

Marco Barbo (1420 – 2 March 1491) of Venice was a cousin and lifetime follower of Cardinal Pietro Barbo, who became Pope Paul II in 1464. Marco was appointed Bishop of Vicenza on 17 September 1464; appointed a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church on 18 September 1467; and Patriarch of Aquileia in 1470. He was a principal papal administrator.

Marco Barbo, the eldest son of Marino di Ser Marco Barbo and Filippa della Riva, was a member of the noble Barbo family of Venice, and a third cousin of Pietro Barbo, who became Pope Paul II.

On 20 November 1438, the eighteen-year-old Marco was presented by his father at the offices of the Venetian Avogadori, to qualify him to attend the Major Council.

Marco became Maestro di casa of his cousin the cardinal, and in 1449 became his procurator for the Premonstratensian abbey of Sainst Severo e Martirio near Orvieto.

On 7 September 1455, or 14 November 1455, he was appointed Bishop of Treviso by Pope Calixtus III.

Barbo was appointed Bishop of Vicenza on 17 September 1464, in succession to his cousin, Pietro Barbo, who had been elected pope on 30 August 1464. He took possession of the diocese by proxy on 27 April 1465, Bishop Angelo Fasolo of Feltre acting on his behalf. He held the diocese until he was promoted Patriarch of Aquileia on 18 March 1470. He did not reside in the patriarchate.

In 1465, Paul II, who had heard a good deal of disquieting information about the Knights of Rhodes (Cavaliers of S. John of Jerusalem), appointed a committee, which included his cousin the Bishop of Vicenza, to attend the General Congregation of the Knights. After a detailed report, featuring the financial state of the Knights, was presented, Paul II issued a bull "Quamvis ex Commisso" on 14 February 1466, embodying an analysis of the problems and the outlines of a reform of the Order[clarification needed]. Bishop Marco Barbo was assigned the Roman priory of the Order in commendam.

Barbo was appointed a cardinal by Pope Paul II on 18 September 1467, and assigned the titular church of San Marco on 2 October 1467. In Rome Marco Barbo resided in the Palazzo di San Marco, as did Paul II, who had been Cardinal of S. Marco, and chose not to change his residence to the Vatican. From 1467, Marco was the cardinal patron of the Knights of Rhodes, for whom he built the loggia on the imperial forums.

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