Niccolò Caetani di Sermoneta

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Tomb of Cardinal Caetani in the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto .

Niccolò Caetani di Sermoneta (born February 23, 1526 in Rome , † May 1, 1585 ibid) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop .

Life

As the youngest son of Camillo, the third Duke of Sermoneta from the noble family of the Caetani di Sermoneta , and his second wife Flaminia Savelli, Niccolò was a cousin of Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III. Boniface VIII , born Benedetto Caetani, is another pope in his family . Niccolò Caetani di Sermoneta was the uncle of Enrico Caetani , great-uncle of Bonifazio and Antonio Caetani , another descendant of the family was Cardinal Luigi Caetani .

Since he was not the firstborn, he was prepared for a career in the church from an early age. At the age of only ten, Pope Paul III appointed him in the consistory of December 22, 1536 to the Cardinal in pectore . Ranuccio Farnese had been the youngest Italian cardinal until Caetani's ascension as a cardinal .

He was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Capua from May 5, 1546 until his resignation in 1548. On May 12, 1564 he was elected apostolic administrator of the same archdiocese, until he resigned again in 1572.

On March 13, 1538, he was published as a cardinal in the consistory and on April 16 of the same year he received the cardinal's hat and the title diaconia of San Nicola in Carcere . From March 9, 1552 he was cardinal priest pro illa vice with Sant'Eustachio as the titular church .

In January 1577 he became treasurer of the Holy College of Cardinals , a position which he held until the beginning of the following year.

He died in Rome on May 1, 1585 at the age of 59 and was buried in the basilica of the Holy House in Loreto in the atrium of the Sacred Heart Chapel. The design for the tomb, which was commissioned by the cardinal himself during his lifetime and which was completed in 1580, comes from Francesco Capriani , also Francesco da Volterra, the marble figures come from Fides (left) and Caritas (right), like the design for the bronze statue of the Cardinal by Giambattista della Porta , the bronze casting was carried out by Antonio Calcagni and Tiburzio Vergelli .

Conclaves

Nicola Caetani participated in the following conclaves :

He did not take part in the 1585 conclave , which Pope Sixtus V elected.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hereafter his epitaph: DOM NICOLAVS. GAETANVS. CARD. SERMONETA. GENTILIS. BONIF. VIIII. CVM. IDEM. TEMPVS. QVO. ILLE. PONTIFIC. INIIT. SANCTAM. HANC. DOMVM. HIC. TANDEM. DIVINITVS. CONSEDISSE. ET. MVLTA. SE. ADOM BENEFICIA. B. VIRGINIS. DEIPARÆ. PRECIBVS. OBTINVISSE. MEMINISSET. SPERANS. EIVSDEM. OPEM. MORIENTI. NON. DEPVTVR. AT THE. MONVMENTVM. HOC. MEMOREVM. VIVENS. ET. INCOLVMIS. SIBI. FACIENDVM. CVRAVIT. ATQ. IN. EO. VBI. MORTALITIES. EXVISSET. CORPVS. SVV. RECONDI. VOLVIT. ANNVM. AGENT. LIV. ANNO. DOMINI. MDLXXX. OBIIT. ANNOS. NATVS. LIX. MENSES. II. THIS. VII. MDLXXXV. CAL. MAY. On the marble slab that covers the tomb: NICOLAVS. GAETANVS. TT. S. EUSTACHII. SRE PRESB. CARD. SERMONETA.

literature

  • Alfonso Chacón: Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et SRE Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max . Typis Vaticanis, Rome 1630 (Latin).
  • Lorenzo Cardella: Memorie storiche de 'cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa . tape 4 . Stamperia Pagliarini, Rome 1793, p. 197–198 ( onb.ac.at [accessed May 3, 2020]).
  • Conradus Eubel, Guglielmus van Gulik: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi . tape III . Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, Munich 1935, p. 25, 73, 75 ( archive.org [accessed May 3, 2020]).
  • Gaspare De Caro:  CAETANI, Nicola. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16:  Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.

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SURNAME Caetani di Sermoneta, Niccolò
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caietani de Sermoneta, Niccolo; Caetani, Niccolò; Caetani, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian archbishop and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1526
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1585
Place of death Rome