Giovanni Battista De Luca

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Giovanni Battista De Luca (also Giambattista De Luca ; * 1614 in Venosa , † February 5, 1683 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

De Luca came from a humble background, his parents were Antonio de Luca and his wife Angela Giacullo. He studied in Salerno and Naples , where he received his doctorate in 1635 . In the same year he went back to his hometown Venosa and worked there as capitular vicar. Either 1645 or 1654 he moved to Rome and entered the clergy . Under the pontificate of Innocent XI. he was trainee lawyer at the Courts of Justice of the Apostolic Signature and auditor of the Pope. He was ordained a priest at an advanced age. He was a respected legal scholar and author of numerous works on civil law, canon law, feudal law and the law of cities, as well as on economics and public finances.

Pope Innocent XI. appointed him cardinal priest in the consistory of September 1, 1681 and awarded him the red hat on September 22 of the same year and San Girolamo degli Schiavoni as the titular church .

He died on February 5, 1683 in the Vatican Palace . The exequies took place on February 8th in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella . Giambattista De Luca was buried in the church of Santo Spirito dei Napoletani in Via Giulia because his benefactor Cardinal Girolamo Pamphili considered it appropriate, although Cardinal De Luca had expressed in his last will that he wanted to be buried in his titular church.

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SURNAME De Luca, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Luca, Giambattista; Luca, Giovanni Battista de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Venosa
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1683
Place of death Rome