Giuseppe Renato Imperiali

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Giuseppe Renato Imperiali

Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (born April 29, 1651 , † January 15, 1737 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Early years

Imperiali was born as the son of an originally Genoese aristocratic family; Francavilla Fontana and Oria are given as likely birthplaces . In 1662 his family sent him to Rome, where his uncle, Cardinal Lorenzo Imperiali , prepared him for a career in the church. In November 1672 he became a consultant at the Apostolic Signature . After he had become a cleric at the Apostolic Chamber in 1684, Pope Innocent XI appointed him . 1688 to papal treasurer general, with which Imperiali rose to the top of the ecclesiastical financial administration.

Pope Alexander VIII accepted him in the consistory of February 13, 1690 as cardinal deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro in the cardinal college and sent him as a legate to Ferrara. There he used his experience as treasurer and optimized the public economic and financial administration. In 1691 he took part in the conclave that Innocent XII. elected to the Pope. In Ferrara, Cardinal Imperiali clashed with the city's powerful families, who saw their privileges endangered by his policies. In 1695, Luigi Bentivoglio initiated military action against him.

Important politician in the Papal States

Innocent XII. Therefore, Imperiali called back to Rome in 1697. At the conclave of 1700 the cardinal was one of the leaders of the faction that Giovanni Francesco Albani called Clement XI. helped to the papal chair. Imperiali, who had a strong influence on Clement XI in the first years of the pontificate. had, was appointed by him on May 4, 1701 prefect of the Congregazione del Buon Governo , which he remained until 1736. In the same year he organized the adoption of new legislation on the financial management of the congregations in the Papal States. Cardinal Imperiali was very active in the secular politics of the Popes, but showed little public interest in religious subjects. He also made a name for himself as an art collector during this time, he was considered a supporter of moderate classicism. In 1708 he refused Clemens XI. helping to put together a papal army to repel imperial troops in the War of the Spanish Succession . On January 15, 1709, the Pope had to sign an armistice. Cardinal Imperiali reacted with a consolidation of the budget, which he in the favor of Clemens' XI. rose. This sent him to Milan in 1711 to meet the new Emperor Charles VI. to recieve.

Tomb of Cardinal Imperiali

In 1720 he was sent to the Republic of Genoa to obtain the arrest warrant for Cardinal Giulio Alberoni , who had previously organized the Cellamare conspiracy , on the papal mandate . However, the mission failed because the Republic of Genoa did not extradite Alberoni. Despite the rivalry with him, Cardinal Imperiali forced Giulio Alberoni to be pardoned in 1723. Under Benedict XIII. he was one of the leaders of the opposition to the Pope and especially to his confidante Niccolò Coscia . In 1725 Imperiali had spoken out against Coscia's admission to the college of cardinals. In 1727 he became cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina and cardinal proto priest. After the death of Benedict XIII. was Imperiali despite its almost 79 years of life as papabile and stood just before the election the new pope before Cardinal Cornelio Bentivoglio 's veto of Philip V of Spain presented against it. The finally elected Clemens XII. commissioned him in 1732 with the establishment of the free port of Ancona . Giuseppe Renato Imperiali died in 1737 and was buried in the Church of Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio .

He was the uncle of the cardinals Giuseppe Spinelli and Cosimo Imperiali .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Miranda mentions April 28th
predecessor Office successor
Giuseppe Sacripante Cardinal Protopriest
1727-1737 		Giovanni Antonio Davia
personal data
SURNAME Imperiali, Giuseppe Renato
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1651
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1737
Place of death Rome