Raffaello Petrucci

Raffaello Petrucci (1472 in Siena – 17 December 1522, in Rome) was a Cardinal and Roman Catholic bishop.

Biography He was born in Siena, circa 1472. He was the son of Giacoppo Petrucci and the Florentine Nanna Fantoni.

In 1491 he was awarded a canonry of the cathedral of Siena. Since 1494, the year of the Medici expulsion from Florence, he represented the pro-Medici party, advocating for Piero de Medici and his attempts to return home. and appointed apostolic prothonotary. His tenure in Siena was discreet because of his uncle Pandolfo's preponderance, who, after the agreements signed between the Republic of Siena and Florence in 1498, came to take on the role of leading citizen or Primus. Politically, the agreement between the two Republics sanctioned the defeat of both Venetian Niccolo Borghesi and pro-Medicean Raffaele Petrucci.

In March 1513 Giovanni de' Medici became Pope Leo X. Leo appointed Petrucci his domestic prelate and castellan, or prefect, of Castel Sant'Angelo, giving him a house with a vegetable garden in Rome, and in May he appointed Eustachio, his fourteen-year-old son, captain of ten crossbowmen of his guard.

From the conclave that brought on the election of Adrian VI as Pope (9 January 1522), Raffaello was named one of the cardinals in charge of welcoming the new Pope from Utrecht at Livorno. He and the other four prelates presented themselves armed and in secular clothes, provoking a harsh rebuke of the pontiff. That year, Renzo da Ceri (hired by the enemies of the Medici) attempted a new invasion of the territories of the Republic. The past two years (1520–1522), he enlisted his cousin Francis Camillo Petrucci of Siena to govern, especially in his moments of absence.

He died at his villa in Bibbiano on 17 December 1522 and is buried in the Basilica of San Domenico, Siena. According to Ludwig Pastor, "he led a completely worldly life and was hated especially for his avarice".