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Vittore Soranzo

Italian bishop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ173165 ↗
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Vittore Soranzo (Venice, 26 July 1500 – Venice, 13 May 1558) was an Italian bishop who served as Bishop of Bergamo (1547–1552).

Bibliography

Dursteler, Eric R., ed. (2013). "Religious Life". A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797. Brill's Companions to European History, 4. Boston-Leiden: Brill. pp. 379–420. ISBN 978-90-04-25252-3.

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“Vittore Soranzo” enters the record as italian bishop. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vittore, Soranzo and Italian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q173165. VIAF identifies the subject as 46502522. The Library of Congress control number is no2005093983. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1500, 1558, 1547 and 1552.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vittore Soranzo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.