Girolamo Agucchi

Domenichino , Portrait of Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi , approx. 1604–05, oil on canvas, 141 × 111 cm. Florence , Uffizi Gallery .

Girolamo Agucchi (born January 15, 1555 in Bologna , † April 27, 1605 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal .

biography

Girolamo Agucchi was born on January 15, 1555 in Bologna to Gian Giorgio Agucchi and Isabella Sega. His mother was the sister of Cardinal Filippo Sega while Giovanni Battista Agucchi was his brother. He studied at the University of Bologna where he graduated in law.

After graduating, he became a notary at the Holy See . On 15 April 1592 it appointed Pope Clement VIII. To apostolic prothonotary and later to Zwischennuntius the County of Flanders . In 1595 he became a trainee lawyer for the Apostolic Signature . On September 20, 1596, he became the lieutenant governor of Fermo , and on November 1, 1597, he became the chief steward of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini . With Cardinal Aldobrandini he went to Ferrara in 1598 and became secretary of the Congregation for Bishops and Religious in 1600. He was provost of Ss. Simone e Giuda in Novara and educator (or director) of the Archispedale di Santo Spirito in Saxia in Rome.

In the consistory of June 9, 1604, Pope Clement VIII appointed him cardinal. On June 25, 1604 he received the red cardinal's hat and the titular church of San Pietro in Vincoli . He took part in the conclave of March 1605 , in which Pope Leo XI. was chosen.

Gravestone of Cardinal Agucchi

Girolamo Agucchi died on April 27, 1605 in Rome - on the same day as the Pope, as his epitaph expressly notes - and was buried in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli. This is the epitaph on his grave:

“DOM HIERONYMO AGVCCHIO BONONIENSI SRE PRESBYTERO CARDINALI S. PETRI AD VINCVLA QVI PHILIPPI SEGAE CARD. Placent AVVNCVLI PRAECLARAS VIRTVTES AEMVLATVS CVM apostolicae SEDI TRIGINTA FERE ANNOS variis IN Locis operam STRENVE NAVASSET AC MULTIPLICEM ETIAM TVM MVNERVM CVRARVMQ MOLEM IN VRBE SVSTINERET VIR VERE MAGNVS ET AD Svmma QUAEQ NATVS AB OPTIMO GRATISSIMOQ PONT CLEMENTE VIII AMPLISSIMAE Dignitatis INSIGNIA BONORUM OMNIVM VOTIS DIVTIVS FRVENDA CONSECVTVS EST IO BAPTISTA AGVCCHIVS PROTONOTARIVS APOST FRATRI OPTIMO P VIXIT ANNOS L MENSES III DIES XII OBIIT EADEM DIE QUA LEO PP XI XXVII APRILIS MDCV ”

Individual evidence

↑ Serafino Amorini, Giuseppe Bosi: Manuale storico-statistico-topografico della arcidiocesi Bolognese . Tipografia delle scienze piazza S. Martino Palazzo Faldi, Bologna, p. 158 (Italian).

literature

Lorenzo Cardella: Memorie storiche de 'cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa . tape VI . Stamperia Pagliarini, Rome 1793 (Italian).
Patrice Gauchat: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi . a pontificatu Clementis pp. VIII (1592) usque ad pontificatum Alexandri pp. VII (1667). Regensberg, Münster 1935, p. 8, 48 (Latin).

Web links

Commons : Girolamo Agucchi - collection of images, videos and audio files

bagucchi .html Entry on Girolamo Cardinal Agucchi † on catholic-hierarchy.org
AGUCCHI, Girolamo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website, English)
Entry on the tomb in the REQUIEM project
Entry on prosopography in the REQUIEM project

predecessor	Office	successor
Silvio Antoniano	Secretary of the Congregazione dei Vescovi e Regolari January 1, 1600 - June 9, 1604	Berlinghiero Gessi
François de Joyeuse	Cardinal priest of San Pietro in Vincoli June 25, 1604 - April 27, 1605	Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini

personal data
SURNAME	Agucchi, Girolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bologna
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1605
Place of death	Rome

[1] Serafino Amorini, Giuseppe Bosi: Manuale storico-statistico-topografico della arcidiocesi Bolognese . Tipografia delle scienze piazza S. Martino Palazzo Faldi, Bologna, p. 158 (Italian).