Barnaba Cagnoli was an Italian friar from
Vercelli. Two time provincial of
Lombardy from 1305 to 1313 and from 1319 to 1324. On 1313 was named inquisitor, in whose charge jealous defender of the faith with great honor he was shown and fame for the Order. After the finish of the second provinciality, he was appointed as
papal legate in
Piedmont by
John XXII, reducing the princes and marquess from that region to the unit and the peace, therefore before they were separated of the Church and in war among itself. In 1324 he was elected
Master general of the Dominican Order, serving until 1332.