Niccolò Petronio Caldana

Niccolò Petronio Caldana was born in Piran at the beginning of 17th century.^[2] He graduated in utroque iure at the University of Padua,^[2] where he used to teach and for two turns he served as provost of that university.^[3] He served Pope Alexander VII as envoy at the court of Leopold I where he remained for ten years. He was member of the court of Cardinal Carlo Carafa della Spina. He served also as general commissioner of the Papal army.^[3] Living in Bologna, he raised his two orphan nephews, one of them was the poet Marco Petronio Caldana .^[4]

On 25 June 1646 he was appointed by Pope Alexander VII Bishop of Poreč.^[1] Therefore, on Sunday 15 May 1667 he was consecrated bishop in the monastic church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Murano by Daniel Delfino, coadjutor patriarch of Aquileia.^[1] After a few years of residence in Poreč, on the way to Rome, he died in Piran in October 1670, and he was buried in that town.^[5]