Paolo Butigella

Paolo Butigella (1475 – October 9, 1531) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1530 to 1531.

Biography

Paolo Butigella was a native of Padua. He joined the Dominican Order in 1494 at the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Ferrara. He served as vicar general of the Congregation of Lombardy 1516-18 and again 1522–24. From 1520 to 1522, he was prior at the monastery of San Domenico in Bologna. He participated in the order's general chapters in Mantua in 1516 and in Forlì in 1522. On December 31, 1525, Pope Clement VII named him inquisitor of Ferrara and Modena and on February 23, 1529 made him vicar general of the Order of Preachers. The general chapter held in Rome in 1530 elected him Master of the Order of Preachers. He served only a year, dying in Naples on October 9, 1531.

gollark: In many cases you just need to have *a degree* of some sort, even if it's completely pointless, because it shows... that you have the patience to do a thing for 4 years or something??

gollark: Or, well, are just short of it.

gollark: So you just have costs go up until they don't reach the limit!

gollark: I mean, if you have a government policy saying "you'll get whatever education you want, free*", the government cannot just go "we'll not buy from you if you increase the price too much".

gollark: How does *that* work?

References

Michael Tavuzzi, Renaissance Inquisitors. Dominican Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527, Brill: Leiden - Boston 2007, p. 243

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Francesco Silvestri	Master of the Order of Preachers 1530–1531	Succeeded by Jean du Feynier

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