Guido Bentivoglio
Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio d'Aragona (born October 4, 1579 in Ferrara , † September 7, 1644 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal , historian and politician.
Life
Born as the youngest son of Marchese Cornelio Bentivoglio and Isabella Bendidi in Ferrara, he came from the local branch of the Bentivoglio family from Bologna . He studied law in Ferrara and Padua , where he received his doctorate in canonical and civil law in 1598. Back in Ferrara, he published his first writings and thus attracted the attention of Pope Clement VIII , who took him to Rome as a private treasurer.
Under Clement's successor Pope Paul V , he became titular Archbishop of Rhodes on May 14, 1607 , without having reached the age required by canon law . With a papal decree, he was sent to Flanders as apostolic nuncio . During the entire period of his stay (June 1, 1607– October 24, 1615) he was confronted with the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute, which ultimately sparked the Thirty Years War . Before returning to Rome in 1621, he was papal nuncio in France . The Bentivoglio family had acquired a palace on the Quirinal ( Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi ) in 1619 , which Guido Bentivoglio moved into in 1621 after his elevation to cardinal in the last consistory of Paul V.
In the same year, on behalf of the French King, Cardinal Richelieu commissioned Bentivoglio to look after French interests in the Holy See, which he carried out until 1641. As papal inquisitor , Bentivoglio signed the judgment against Galileo Galilei on June 22, 1633 . Due to his diplomatic successes, his writings and his position as inquisitor, he was a promising candidate for the successor to the Holy See after the death of Pope Urban VIII . Shortly after the conclave began , he suddenly died of inexplicable reasons. He was buried in the church of San Francesco nel Quirinale .
effect
Bentivoglio was considered a lover of art and music. Immediately after his arrival in Flanders, he had the organist and composer Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) come from Ferrara to Brussels , where he was a celebrated musician and, with the help of the Bentivoglio in Antwerp, published his madrigals in 1608 . It is certain that Bentivoglio also had contact with the artists there, such as Rubens . He later also preferred the Flemish artists in particular, such as Anthonis van Dyck and François Duquesnoy Il Fiammingo , by whom he was portrayed.
His great-nephew Cornelio Bentivoglio was also elevated to cardinal in 1719.
Works
- Della Gverra di Fiandra. 3 volumes. sn, Colonia (Cologne?) 1635–1640.
- Relationi fatte dall'ill.mo, e reu.mo sig.or cardinal Bentiuoglio in tempo delle sue nuntiature di Fiandra, e di Francia. Date in luce da Erycio Puteano. 2 volumes. Meerbeeck, Antwerp 1629.
literature
- Raccolta di lettere steps del Cardinal Bentiuoglio. Rocolet, Paris 1631.
- Raffaele Belvederi: Guido Bentivoglio. Diplomatico. 2 volumes. Centro di Cultura "Aldo Masieri", Rovigo 1947–1948.
- Raffaele Belvederi: Guido Bentivoglio e la politica europea del suo tempo, 1607–1621. Liviana editrice, Padua 1962.
Web links
- Bentivoglio, Guido. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 7, 2017.
- Entry on Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 7, 2017.
- Nicholas Weber: Family of Bentivoglio . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 2, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1907 (Entry No. 1).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bentivoglio, Guido |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bentivoglio d'Aragona, Cardinal Guido (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cardinal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1579 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ferrara |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1644 |
| Place of death | Rome |