Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere

Cardinal Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere

Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere , also Alessandro Lante , (born November 27, 1762 in Rome , † July 14, 1818 in Bologna ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

As the son of Filippo Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Duke of Bomarzo, and his second wife Faustina Capranica, he came from the noble family Lante , which in the female line - via Lucrezia della Rovere († 1652), wife of Marcantonio Lante and daughter of an illegitimate son of Cardinal Giulio Feltrio della Rovere - descended from two very well-known, but long-extinct royal houses, the della Rovere and the Montefeltro , and made use of their famous names. The Rovere had once provided two popes. His half-brother Antonio Lante also became a cardinal in 1816. More distant relatives were his great-great-great-uncle Cardinal Marcello Lante and his great-uncle Cardinal Federico Marcello Lante .

He completed his first studies in Rome with the Benedictines , later he attended the Collegio Clementino and received his doctorate on August 2, 1785 at the University of La Sapienza as Doctor iuris utriusque . After completing his studies, he was appointed House Prelate of His Holiness and entered the Roman Curia on June 16, 1785 . He became a canon of the Vatican Basilica on June 25, 1785 .

After the restoration of the Papal State , Pope Pius VII appointed him secretary of the Congregation for the Restoration of Papal Rule on July 9, 1800. Before November 22, 1800, he became an Apostolic Protonotary . In those years he was one of the leading representatives of a reform policy such as that represented by Cardinal Secretary of State Ercole Consalvi . After the French occupation of the Papal States, he withdrew to Tuscany. After the papal government was restored, he was compromised in the eyes of the Zelanti . Only the return of Cardinal Consalvis to power allowed him to refute the accusations against him and to be accepted into the College of Cardinals.

He was in the consistory of March 8, 1816 by Pope Pius VII. To Cardinal created and on April 29, 1816 Cardinal Deacon of the Title Diakonie Sant'Eustachio levied. On September 6 of the same year the Pope appointed him legate of the city and province of Bologna, where he entered on September 29, 1816.

Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere died on July 14, 1818 in Bologna and was buried in the cathedral there.

Web links

• Lante, Alessandro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 18, 2016.
• Entry on Alessandro Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 4, 2017.