Alfonso Carrillo y Acuña (....-1491), obispo de Pamplona, personaje preclaro en Roma y poeta

Abstract

Son of the first Conde de Buendía, the future Bishop of Pamplona took advantage of his kinship with
his namesake uncle by blood, Alonso Carrillo, Bishop of Toledo, for his progress in the Archdiocese,
his appointment as apostolic Protonotary and the activity as Treasurer and Commissioner of the
Crusade. Promoted to the Bishopric of Pamplona in 1473 with the support of Juan II of Aragón and  the Prince don Fernando, the tense political and ecclesiastic situation drove him to Rome, at the end of 1481 or the beginning of 1482, where he decided to settle down even after the most important diocesan problems were solved. There, besides obtaining several ecclesiastic benefits, in July 1486 was elected Rector of the Santiago de los Españoles church and he knotted an important contacts network with distinguished personalities of the Curial environment (the Cardinals Arcimboldi and Sforza, or the Master of Ceremonies Burkhard), with notable Spaniards (the Vice-chancellor Borja, Joan Margarit, López de Carvajal, Vidal de Noya, Paradinas, Diego Guillén de Ávila and many others) and with some well known Humanists, like Pietro Martire D’Anghiera, who from 1488, after he got established in Spain, choosed him as one of his favourite correspondents. So it was through Carrillo that many news from the Spanish court were known in the eternal city, specially those relating to the development of the Granada war. He died in Rome in 1491, after he commissioned Guillén de Ávila to write a Loor of his uncle, that he adorned with several <<coplas de arte mayor>>.