Fausto Poli

Fausto Poli

Fausto Poli (born February 17, 1581 in Usigni , † October 7, 1653 in Orvieto ) was an Italian archbishop and cardinal.

biography

Fausto was born on February 17, 1581 in Usigni near Spoleto to Sisinio and Polidora, a wealthy family. He received his first training from his uncle Nicolangelo Poli, the pastor of Usigni, and continued it in Macerata . In 1602 he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Alfonso Visconti , Bishop of Spoleto, who appointed him prior of the parish of S. Fortunato in Poggioprimocaso di Cascia and later made him a legate of the Marca and governor of Ascoli . When Visconti died on September 19, 1608, Poli went to Rome. Cardinal Maffeo Barberini appointed him master of the house and entrusted him with the management of his property. In 1611 he took Poli to Bologna with him, where he was to rule the legation for three years. On January 24, 1619, the Senate of Rome granted him, his nephews and their descendants Roman citizenship and the patriciate of Rome.

With the beginning of the pontificate of his protector, Urban VIII , Poli experienced significant progress in his career. In 1623 he became cameriere segreto and majordomo of the Apostolic Palace . On October 2, 1624 he became a canon of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore . In the anniversary year of 1625, the Pope commissioned him to look after important guests: the Polish princes Ladislaus and Alexander Karl, Ferdinando II. De 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany, Archduke Leopold of Austria and Odoardo I Farnese , Duke of Parma. On August 31, 1627 he became a canon of the Vatican Basilica . On the following October 2, he was appointed governor of Castel Gandolfo for three years , a position that was confirmed again and again until 1643. On March 10, 1629 he became Prefect of the Apostolic Palace and Governor of Frascati ad beneplacitum .

Poli was named titular archbishop of Amasea on March 14, 1633 . It was consecrated on Monday 25 July 1633 in Rome in the Quirinal Palace by Cardinal Antonio Barberini , brother of the Pope. The co- consecrators were Giovanni della Robbia , Bishop of Bertinoro , and Benedetto Landi , former Bishop of Fossombrone .

The last promotion he received from Urban VIII on July 13, 1644, was the cardinal title and, as an exception, was confirmed as Prefect of the Apostolic Palace. On August 31, he became a cardinal priest of San Crisogono .

In the absence of the titular cardinal Antonio Barberini, Poli was appointed Vice-Protector of the Dominicans on February 15, 1644 in order to calm the broken Dominican order. With the election of Tommaso Turco da Cremona, who was also accepted by France and Spain, a two-year controversy ended. On May 7, 1644, at the request of the monks who complained about the dismissal of Abbot General Giovanni Giacomo Giordano , Poli was appointed protector of the Camaldolese congregation of Montevergine . On May 23, 1644, he finally became Bishop of Orvieto .

When Urban VIII died, he took part in the conclave from August 9 to September 15, 1644, in which Innocent X was elected, and then retired to his diocese.

Poli remained very attached to his homeland. On December 30, 1618 he received the citizenship of Cascia for himself and his brothers . In 1626 he had the house of the Lotti family located, in which Sister Rita , venerated as a saint by her fellow citizens , had lived in the 14th century . The following year he obtained permission from the Pope for public veneration and promoted the construction of a chapel, the foundation stone of which was laid on October 2, 1630.

In his hometown of Usigni, he had the chapel of San Giorgio, which was under the patronage of the Poli family, demolished and in its place built the parish church of San Salvatore in 1631, which was completed in 1644 and added 10,000 scudi for the construction and another 2,000 for the poli Establishment contributed.

On March 19, 1652 he wrote his will in Orvieto. In it he put his nephew Sisinio Poli as heir and divided his fortune among his family and various pious works. He died of gout on October 7, 1653 in Orvieto. According to the wills, his body was buried in the Roman church of San Crisogono in Trastevere , of which he was the titular owner, in a chapel to the left of the high altar, which was built between 1677 and 1680 by Giacinto Rondi based on a design by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and painted with frescoes has been.

literature

• Silvano Giordano:  POLI, Fausto. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 84:  Pio VI – Ponzo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
• Omero Sabatini, Fabrizio Altieri, Pierangelo Fiacchi: Il castello di Usigni: paese natale del cardinale Fausto Poli . Federici, Terni 2012, ISBN 978-88-906685-3-1 (Italian).
• Prof. Agostino Serentoni (ed.): Commemorazione del cardinale Fausto Poli nel IV centenario della nascita (1581–1981) . Ceroli, Terni 1986 (Italian).

Web links

• POLI, Fausto. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website, English)
• Entry on Fausto Poli on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Pier Paolo Crescenzi	Archbishop of Orvieto 1644–1653	Giuseppe della Corgna OP