Neri Maria Corsini

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Neri Maria Cardinal Corsini

Neri Maria Corsini (born May 19, 1685 in Florence , † December 6, 1770 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Neri Maria Corsini came from the Florentine noble family of the Corsini. After he was at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III from 1704 . de 'Medici , lived, Corsini traveled through Europe for educational purposes between 1709 and 1713. In May 1716 Cosimo III sent him. as a special envoy to Paris to meet the new King Louis XV. to express his congratulations. From 1718 he worked as a diplomat in London, The Hague and Paris. In 1725 the new Grand Duke Gian Gastone de 'Medici appointed him commander of his satellite guard , a post that Cosimo III, who died in 1723, gave him. wanted to transfer. In 1728 he went to Rome and became secretary of his uncle, Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini , who two years later became Pope Clement XII. was chosen.

After the election of this Pope, Neri Maria Corsini began an ecclesiastical career. On August 14, 1730 Corsini was by his uncle Clemens XII. elevated to cardinal, on January 8 of the following year he was assigned the title diaconia Sant'Adriano al Foro . As a cardinal he was active in the Roman Inquisition , among other things . In March 1733, Cardinal Corsini became Prefect of the Apostolic Signature , which he remained until his death. From the same year he was due to the blindness of Clemens XII. and the appointment of the politically weak Cardinal Secretary of State, Giuseppe Firrao, one of the most influential cardinals. In 1736, Cardinal Corsini, with the financial support of his uncle, acquired the grounds of the Palazzo Corsini from the Riario family and had a new building built on it. In 1737 he became a cardinal deacon of Sant'Eustachio . As a cardinal he took part in the conclaves of 1740 (election of Pope Benedict XIV. ), 1758 (election of Clement XIII. ) And 1769 (election of Clement XIV. ). At the election of Clemens XIII. In 1758 he played a decisive role, so that the following year he accepted his great-nephew Andrea Corsini into the college of cardinals. Neri Maria Corsini opposed the Jesuit order , but he did not live to see its repeal in 1773 because he had died three years earlier.

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SURNAME Corsini, Neri Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corsini, Neri; Corsini, Neri iuniore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1770
Place of death Rome