Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta

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Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta (born February 1548 in Caldarola , † August 22, 1620 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman and cardinal .

Life

Origin and early years

He was the eldest of five children of Desiderio Pallotta and his wife Domenica Cianfortini.

In 1563 he entered the Seminary of Macerata and received to 1571 the ordination . In 1572 and 1573 he was the parish rector of the Church of San Martino , during which time he met Cardinal Felice Peretti , who later became Pope Sixtus V, and became friends with him. Cardinal Peretti also arranged for him a canonical at the Church of Santa Maria ad Martyres . On the day of his coronation , May 1, 1585, Sixtus V. appointed Pallotta papal secret chamberlain and on November 9 of the same year canon of the Vatican basilica . On July 4, 1586, he was appointed papal datar and on July 11, 1587, he and his father and younger brother Martino, who would one day become the father of the later Cardinal Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta , received Roman citizenship.

Church career

Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta was elected Archbishop of Cosenza in Calabria on September 11, 1587 . He was ordained bishop on September 13 of the same year in the Basilica of Santi XII Apostoli in Rome by Cardinal Costanzo da Sarnano OFMConv ; Co- consecrators were Ladislao Aquino , the Bishop of Venafro , and Ottavio Paravicini , the Bishop of Alessandria .

In the consistory of December 18, 1587, Pope Sixtus V appointed him cardinal priest and awarded him the cardinal's hat and the titular church of San Matteo in Merulana on January 15 of the following year . On March 4, 1588, he was appointed Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica by Sixtus V and Prefect of the Dombauhütte of St. Peter .

After the death of his sponsor Sixtus V, he took part in the conclave of September 1590 , which Pope Urban VII elected as his successor. In the same year he took part in the second conclave of 1590 , from which Gregory XIV emerged as pope. On April 5, 1591 he resigned to his Calabrian archbishopric. In the same year he was again a participant in a conclave that was now Pope Innocent IX. he chose. He was also one of the electoral cardinals of the conclave of 1592 , which Clement VIII elevated to papal rank. From 1595 to January 8, 1596 Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta was chamberlain of the Holy Cardinals College . He moved to the titular church of San Lorenzo in Lucina on June 16, 1603 and became a cardinal proto-priest . He took part in both the first and the second conclave of 1605, each of which led to the election of Leo XI. and Paul V. came together . On January 24, 1611 he was raised to Cardinal Bishop of Frascati . Finally, on April 6, 1620, he moved to the suburbicarian bishopric of Porto e Santa Rufina and became subdean of the college of cardinals .

Death and burial

Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta died on August 22, 1620, a Saturday, at five o'clock in the afternoon. He was buried in the church of Santa Caterina in Caldarola, which he had donated.

Act

Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta is - according to his time and position - as a patron of art and literature, so he was a patron of the poet Torquato Tasso . He also shaped the softening of his hometown Caldarola through new buildings as well as renovations.

Remarks

  1. Cf. Antonio D'Amico in the DBI , Miranda, however, describes him as the second of four children.
  2. According to Antonio D'Amico in the DBI, he hardly ever visited his diocese, on the other hand D'Amico mentions that this impression could be due to the fact that there are only a few documents in this regard. D'Amico literally: “ […] l'incertezza sulla sua effettiva presenza in diocesi permane, dato che i documenti calabresi relativi al vescovado Pallotta sono rari.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Cf. Antonio D'Amico:  Pallotta, Giovanni Evangelista. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 80. Rome 2014.
  2. a b c d e f g Pallotta, Giovanni Evangelista. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English)
  3. Peretti Montalto, OFM Conv., Felice. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English)
  4. ^ Pallotta, Giovanni Battista Maria. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English)
predecessor Office successor
Antonio Maria Sauli Cardinal Sub- Dean
1620
Benedetto Giustiniani
Antonio Maria Sauli Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
1620
Benedetto Giustiniani
Mariano Pierbenedetti Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
1611–1620
Francesco Sforza
Silvio Passerini Archbishop of Cosenza
1587–1591
Giovanni Battista Costanzo