Tiberio Muti

Sponsor of works in the cathedral, he was the first patron of Tiberio Alfarano

From a noble Roman family, he received his first significant appointments in the Eternal City in the ecclesiastical sphere. He also became a member of the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the Petrine basilica, established by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. 

His family relationship with Cardinal Alessandro Cesarini, who had administered the diocese of Gerace, favored the appointment of Tiberius as bishop of the Calabrian city. In contrast to what had happened in the early sixteenth century, he carried out his duties personally for a substantial part of his mandate. He made two pastoral visits to the diocese, the minutes of which are still a precious source today on the state of churches in that territory. He supported substantial renovation works, no longer visible today, in the bishop's palace and in the cathedral, where, with the favor of the Marquis of Gerace Consalvo II de Cordoba, he founded the brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament. 

In the final years of his office he returned to Rome, probably with Tiberio Alfarano in his retinue, who wrote a well-known description of the old and new basilica of St. Peter, then under construction. He took over the care of the diocese of Assisi, from which he resigned after a short period, holding the sole position of canon of St. Peter's until his death.

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