Alessandro Malvasia

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Alessandro Malvasia (born April 26, 1748 in Bologna , † September 12, 1819 in Ravenna ) was an Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

He was the son of conte Cesare Alberto Malvasia Gabrielli († June 4, 1768) and his wife Junipera Gozzadini. The family originally from Gubbio belonged to the patriciate of Bologna. His older brother Giuseppe Malvasia Gabrielli later became Senator of Bologna, to whom Alessandro Malvasia transferred his inheritance on January 2, 1771, and in return received a considerable annual pension. He studied both law at the University of Bologna for two years before moving to Rome to complete his legal education. On October 30, 1769 he was tonsured in Bologna as a cleric and on May 25, 1770 received his doctorate from the University of Rome as Doctor iuris utriusque .

Church career

On March 7, 1771, Alessandro Malvasia entered the service of the Curia . As Papal House Prelate he first took some subordinate positions in the administration of the Papal States one before it on October 1, 1783 for the city of Bologna for Auditor of the Roman Rota was appointed. He was ordained a priest on June 19, 1789 and was appointed Vicar to Santa Maria in Trastevere in November of the same year .

In the course of the first restoration of the papal state after the French occupation, Pope Pius VII assigned him to the extraordinary congregation for the recovery of the goods expropriated during the French occupation of Rome ( Italian Congregazione deputata per gli acquisti fatti nel tempo della rivoluzione ) on July 9, 1800 . Alessandro Malvasia was also appointed Consultor of the Congregation for Rites and Apostolic Protonotary . In February 1801 he also became assessor of the Congregation for the Roman and General Inquisition .

During the second French occupation of Rome, Alessandro Malvasia withdrew to his family, after the end of the occupation he was reinstated in all offices.

Cardinalate and death

In the consistory of March 8, 1816 , Pope Pius VII accepted him as a cardinal priest in the college of cardinals . Alessandro Malvasia received the red hat on March 11 of the same year, and on April 29, 1816, he was awarded Santa Croce in Gerusalemme as the titular church . From September 6, 1816 until his death, he was Apostolic Legate in the city and province of Ravenna.

He was buried in the church of Sant'Apollinare in Classe in Ravenna.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Miranda also mentions April 27th as a possible date of birth.
  2. ↑ Miranda names August as the month of appointment - probably by mistake.

literature

  • Philippe Bountry: Le sacré collège des cardinaux . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 447–453 (French, online edition [accessed November 15, 2019]).
  • Dante Marini:  Malvasia, Alessandro. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 68:  Malatacca-Mangelli. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Malvasia, Alessandro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed November 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ cf. Bountry, margin no. 449
  3. ↑ a b c cf. Bountry, margin no. 450
personal data
SURNAME Malvasia, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1748 or April 27, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1819
Place of death Ravenna