Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti

Portrait of Cardinal Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti (unknown artist around 1760)

Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti (born January 23, 1684 in Bergamo , † January 14, 1764 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal to the Curia .

Life

Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti was born in 1684 to a patrician family and studied rhetoric and philosophy in Milan, he also dealt with theology and canon law. He was ordained around 1705. In 1709 he moved to Rome and soon learned the esteem of Pope Clement XI. who sent him as ambassador to Venice in 1715 . In 1722 he was appointed by Pope Innocent XIII. appointed prelate to the apostolic signature before Cardinal Vicar Fabrizio Paolucci appointed him lieutenant in 1725.

In September 1743, Pope Benedict XIV appointed him secretary of the Council Congregation , after having been governor of the Apostolic Chamber for eleven years . In the following years Furietti wrote several works on canon law and on archeology, with the archaeological publications particularly the art of ancient Rome treated. In 1751 the Patriarchate of Aquileia was dissolved, against which he protested violently at the imperial court in Vienna and thus became a persona non grata . Despite these occurrences, Benedict's successor Clement XIII took him . in the consistory of September 24, 1759 as cardinal priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta in the cardinals college and assigned him some important activities. Cardinal Furietti, who was already 75 years old, was not able to do this for long because he soon developed arteriosclerosis . After almost five years of illness, he finally died in January 1764 and was buried in the church of San Alessandro dei Bergamaschi .

literature

Guido Fagioli Vercellone: Furietti, Giuseppe Alessandro. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 50: Francesco I Sforza-Gabbi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1998.

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Furietti, Giuseppe Alessandro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 30, 2015.
Entry on Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti on catholic-hierarchy.org

Remarks

↑ Guido Fagioli Vercellone: Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
↑ Furietti's year of birth is often given as 1685

personal data
SURNAME	Furietti, Giuseppe Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, cardinal to the curia
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bergamo
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1764
Place of death	Rome

[1] Guido Fagioli Vercellone: Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).

[2] Furietti's year of birth is often given as 1685