Giorgio Andreasi

Giorgio Andreasi (1467–1549) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1544–1549), Apostolic Nuncio to Venice (1540–1542), and Bishop of Chiusi (1538–1544).

Biography Giorgio Andreasi was born in Mantua, Italy in 1467. He had an elder brother, Lodovico, who was born in 1462, and was a Consistorial Advocate in Rome under Pope Julius II; he died in 1506.

He began his career as secretary to Cardinal Francesco Sforza, the brother of the Duke of Milan. He was elected Archpriest of the cathedral Chapter of Milan.

Andreasi was a Protonotary Apostolic, and was the ambassador (orator) of the Duke of Milan to the Emperor Charles V, and then to Pope Clement VII, at least from 1529 to 1532.

On 20 March 1538, he was appointed by Pope Paul III to the diocese of Chiusi.

He attended the Council of Trent.

On 2 April 1544, he was transferred by Paul III to the diocese of Reggio Emilia.

He died on 22 January 1549 at the age of nearly eighty-two, and after a public viewing for two days, his remains were taken to Mantua for burial. He was originally interred in the Carmelite church in Mantua, with a monument by Prospero Clemente of Reggio, but when the Carmelites were suppressed in 1785, his monument was moved to the church of S. Andrea.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Girolamo Foscari, Bishop of Torcello (1542).