Antonio Carafa

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Antonio Cardinal Carafa

Antonio Carafa (born March 25, 1538 in Naples , † January 13, 1591 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

biography

He was a son of Rinaldo Carafa and had been a member of the Roman Curia since 1555 . The related Pope Paul IV awarded him a canonical at St. Peter's Basilica in 1558 . In 1559 he had to leave Rome because the Carafa family was persecuted by Pope Pius IV . Carafa went to Abruzzo , then to Padua and finally to Naples. In Padua he studied law from 1559 and dealt with church history , in Naples he learned Greek from Guglielmo Sirleto . He later placed himself in the service of Cardinal Antonio Ghisleri , who was elected Pope Pius V in 1566. When the Carafa family was rehabilitated by Pius V, he returned to Rome.

He was admitted to the College of Cardinals in March 1568 by Pope Pius V as Cardinal of Santi Giovanni e Paolo . 1573 he took over the title Diakonie Santa Maria in Cosmedin . In 1577 he moved to the titular diaconia Santa Maria in Via Lata and in 1583 as cardinal priest to the titular church of Sant'Eusebio . He was a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate and since 1568 member and from 1586 Prefect of the Congregation for the Declaration of the Tridentine Council . From 1569 until his death he was prefect of the Signatura de gratia .

Carafa took part in the conclave of 1572 that Pope Gregory XIII. elected, also at the conclave of 1585 , from which Sixtus V emerged as pope, at the conclave of September 1590 , which Pope Urban VII determined, and finally at the conclave of December 1590 , which Gregory XIV made pope. During the pontificate of Sixtus V (1585–1590), Carafa had the Roman church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo restored at his own expense.

The tomb of Antonio Carafas is in S. Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome.

Other cardinals come from the Carafa family, see Carafa .

Works

As head of the Congregation for the Improvement of the Bible Text and later as Cardinal Librarian of Gregory XIII. he collected the papal decretals and obtained an improved edition of the Septuagint , which was published in Rome in 1587 and of which Flaminius Nobilius published a Latin translation in 1588, also in Rome. He also translated, among other things, Theodoret's Commentary on the Psalms and Gregory of Nazianzen 's Orationes from Greek into Latin. Cardinal Carafa penned an apologetic biography of his relative and early patron, Pope Paul IV, published in 1612.

Around 1580 he had the later so-called Villa Grazioli built near Frascati .

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SURNAME Carafa, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1538
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1591
Place of death Rome