Editing Robert Bellarmine (section)

===New duties after 1589===
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Until 1589, Bellarmine was occupied as professor of theology. After the murder in that year of [[Henry III of France]], [[Pope Sixtus V]] sent [[Enrico Caetani]] as [[Papal legate|legate]] to Paris<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1585-ii.htm#Caetani|title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary – CAETANI, Enrico (1550-1599)|last=Miranda|first=Salvador|author-link1=Salvador Miranda (historian)|website=www2.fiu.edu|access-date=23 June 2017|archive-date=23 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323184306/http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1585-ii.htm#Caetani|url-status=live}}</ref> to negotiate with the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League of France]], and chose Bellarmine to accompany him as theologian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1599.htm#Bellarmino|title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary – BELLARMINO, S.J., Roberto (1542-1621)|last=Miranda|first=Salvador|author-link1=Salvador Miranda (historian)|website=www2.fiu.edu|access-date=23 June 2017|archive-date=23 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323184305/http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1599.htm#Bellarmino|url-status=live}}</ref> He was in the city during its siege by [[Henry of Navarre]].

Upon the death of Pope Sixtus V in 1590, the [[Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Count of Olivares|Count of Olivares]] wrote to [[Philip II of Spain]], "Bellarmine ... would not do for a Pope, for he is mindful only of the interests of the Church and is unresponsive to the reasons of princes."<ref name="rice" />

Pope [[Pope Clement VIII|Clement VIII]], said of him, "the Church of God had not his equal in learning".<ref name="smith" /> Bellarmine was made rector of the [[Roman College]] in 1592, examiner of [[bishop]]s in 1598, and cardinal in 1599. Immediately after his appointment as Cardinal, Pope Clement made him a [[Inquisition|Cardinal Inquisitor]], in which capacity he served as one of the judges at the trial of [[Giordano Bruno]], and concurred in the decision which condemned Bruno to be [[burned at the stake]] as a [[heretic]].<ref>Blackwell [[#Reference-Blackwell-1991|(1991, pp.&nbsp;47&ndash;48)]].</ref>

In 1602 he was made [[archbishop of Capua]]. He had written against pluralism and non-residence of bishops within their [[diocese]]s. As bishop he put into effect the reforming decrees of the [[Council of Trent]]. He received some votes in the 1605 [[papal election|conclaves]] which elected [[Pope Leo XI]], [[Pope Paul V]], and in 1621 when [[Pope Gregory XV]] was elected, but his being a Jesuit counted against him in the judgement of many of the cardinals.<ref name="smith" />

[[Thomas Hobbes]] saw Bellarmine in Rome at a service on All Saints Day (1 November) 1614 and, exempting him alone from a general castigation of cardinals, described him as "a little lean old man" who lived "more retired".<ref>{{cite book|last=Martinich|first=A. P.|title=Thomas Hobbes: a Biography|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge U.P.|date=1999|page=34}}</ref>