Alessandro Franchi
Alessandro Franchi may refer to: * Alessandro Franchi (cardinal) (1819–1878), Italian cardinal and archbishop * Alessandro Franchi (painter) Alessandro Franchi (15 March 1838, in Prato – 29 April 1914, in Siena) was an Italian painter. He worked in a combination of Romantic and Neo-gothic styles, influenced by Purismo. Biography While still very young, he demonstrated his arti ...

Alessandro Franchi (cardinal)
Alessandro Franchi (25 June, 1819 – 31 July, 1878) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop. Biography His father was a notary. He studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary, where he received his Doctor of Theology degree in 1841, followed by a degree '' in utroque iure'' from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1842, he was ordained a priest and taken under the sponsorship of Luigi Lambruschini, the Cardinal Secretary of State. In 1848, during the First Italian War of Independence, he was selected to become part of a sensitive diplomatic mission to Emperor Ferdinand I; an unsuccessful attempt to convince the Emperor that he should give up the Habsburg-held territories in Italy. Five years later, he served briefly as chargé d'affaires in Madrid. In 1856, he became the Titular Bishop of Thessalonica. Later that same year, he was ordained a bishop by Pope Pius IX. He was also appointed Apostolic Nuncio for the city of Florence, which was then the capital of the Grand Duc ...
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