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Biography
Literate, jurist, magistrate and finally bishop, he was the son of the correct Ercole Macone, leader, and Margherita Merli, noblewoman: he was born probably in Verona - since the father, already in the money of the Este, served in that period the Republic of Venice - and owes the epithet Course to the paternal grandfather, that from the natìa Corsica had migrated in Emilia towards 1460.

When Colonel Macone died, on August 15, 1526 in the siege of Cremona, the Merli with his son returned to Correggio, where Rinaldo would live a good part of an intense and adventurous life, returning from travels and stays in various Italian cities (Venice, Bologna, Urbino, Ancona, Vasto, Rome, Naples, Benevento), in Malta and Cyprus: first for reasons of study, then for political reasons, then finally culminating, then for diplomatic assignments.

In 1546 he graduated in jurisprudence in Bologna and became the militia of the newborn equestrian order of the Lauretan Knights. In those years he took an active part in the academy founded in Correggio by Veronica Gambara, poet and lady of the city as a widow of Count Giberto X, linked to the Merli family; in the same period the Còrso married the woman who then dramatically will mark his life, Lucrezia Lombardi (grandfather of the doctor and philosopher Giambattista, called of the Marchesini, professor in the university of Bologna and '

When (1550) Gambara died – of which he treated the Latin epitaph – Rinaldo gave life to the academy of Filogarites (“Amanti delle Grazie”), and in 1554 wrote The Honors of the Correggio house, operetta in ottave and musical intermezzi created by him, given to the prints two years later in Ancona.

Intellectual eclectic and prolific, he cited himself in grammar, poetry, music, theater, pictorial aesthetics but also in legal and technical texts, such as a treatise of agricultural hydraulics, a “ordinance” on catasto and sewers, a story of Saint Quirino (citizen's father), a treatise on the dance, translations of Virgil, biographies of local characters and more.

Elected judge and prior of the College of Correggio notaries, he signed in 1555 the other work that made him famous, Of private rappacifications, an unprecedented manual on extrajudicial concordats, which analyzes the motives of litigation and indicates the paths of reconciliation: a text that had repeated editions, including one in Latin, curated by the same author to dedicate it to Pope Pius IV.

1557 is the year of the first separation from his wife, who abandoned him and therefore was disinherited, and of the first “political” problems, linked to the changing positions of the Da Correggio in the war between papacy (“Sacred League”) and empire: he was accused of having orchestrated the “rebalton” d