The Italian Dominican friar Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio (1456-1527), known as Prierias, served as Master of the Sacred Palace during the pontificates of Leo X, Adrian VI and Clement VII. He is chiefly remembered for his involvement in the cases of Luther and Reuchlin and an epistolary exchange with Erasmus. In this paper it is argued that he also played an important role in the Pomponazzi affair. Furthermore, Prierias’ intervention largely explains Bartolomeo Spina’s own polemics against both Pomponazzi and Cajetan.

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Original publication: Tavuzzi, Michael. "Silvestro da Prierio and the Pomponazzi Affair." Renaissance and Reformation 31 (2): 2010. 47-61. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v31i2.11611. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.