Cornelio Bentivoglio (Cardinal)

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Cardinal Cornelio Bentivoglio

Marco Cornelio Bentivoglio d'Aragona , pseudonym Selvaggio Porpora (born March 27, 1668 in Ferrara , † December 30, 1732 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal to the Curia .

Life

He came from the influential Bentivoglio family from Bologna and was the fifth of seven children of Ippolito Bentivoglio and his wife Lucrezia Pio di Savoia. Cornelio Bentivoglio was a great-nephew of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio . He studied at the University of Ferrara, where he received his doctorate on December 6, 1701, Doctor iuris utriusque . He moved to Rome early on, where he became President of the Accademia degli Intrepidi in 1698 . On June 1, 1702 he was a trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature . Since he was denied the office of auditor of the Roman Rota, Pope Clement XI compensated . him on September 30, 1706 with the appointment as cleric of the Apostolic Chamber .

On November 29, 1711 he became a subdeacon and received on December 8, 1711 the deacon and on December 28 of the same year the priestly ordination . On March 16, 1712 he was named titular archbishop of Cartagine ( Carthage ). He received his episcopal ordination on April 3, 1712 in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella by Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci ; Co- consecrators were Curia Archbishop Pier Marcellino Corradini and Domenico de Zaoli , former Bishop of Veroli . Cornelio Bentivoglio was appointed Nuncio in France on May 20, 1712 . His - sometimes undiplomatic - insistence on the enforcement of the bull Unigenitus Dei filius of 1713, with which Jansenism was condemned, displeased the Duke of Orléans Philip II , who was regent of France after the death of Louis XIV (1715), and so Cornelio Bentivoglio was recalled from the nunciature and it was imposed on him to stay in Ferrara.

In the consistory of November 29, 1719 Pope Clement XI. him cardinal priest and awarded him on April 15, 1720 the cardinal's hat and the titular church of San Girolamo degli Schiavoni . Cornelio Bentivoglio was a legate in Romagna since March 20, 1720 and remained so until January 1727. He took part in the 1721 conclave , where Pope Innocent XIII. was chosen. Also in the 1724 conclave , from which Benedict XIII. when Pope emerged he was among the electoral cardinals. In 1726 Cornelio Bentivoglio was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Spain, a position he held until his death. From January 20, 1727 to January 26, 1728 he was chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals . On June 25, 1727 he moved to the titular church of Santa Cecilia . He was a participant in the 1730 conclave that Clemens XII. elected Pope, and in the conclave put forward the exclusivity of King Philip V of Spain against the election of Cardinals Giuseppe Renato Imperiali and Antonio Felice Zondadari .

Cornelio Bentivoglio was also active as a writer, he translated the epic Thebais by Publius Papinius Statius from Latin into Italian under the pseudonym Selvaggio Porpora . He had been a member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence since 1699. He died in Rome and was buried in his titular church, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the membership catalog of the Accademia
personal data
SURNAME Bentivoglio, Cornelio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bentivoglio d'Aragona, Marco Cornelio (full name); Porpora, Selvaggio (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Cardinal Curia
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1732
Place of death Rome