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Giovanni Aldobrandini (1525 – 7 September 1573) was an 
A member of the
, on December 8, 1569 with Giulio Antonio Santorio, Archbishop of Santa Severina, and Felice Peretti, Felice Peretti Montalto, Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti, serving as co-consecrators. Wikipedia:SPS, He resigned the government of his see sometime before February 9, 1573.
Italian
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Roman Catholic
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bishop
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and cardinal
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.
A member of the Aldobrandini family
The House of Aldobrandini is an Italian noble family originally from Florence, where in the Middle Ages they held the most important municipal offices. Now the Aldobrandini are resident in Rome, with close ties to the Vatican.
History
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, Giovanni Aldobrandini was born in Fano
Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the ''Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by popula ...
in 1525, the son of Salvestro Aldobrandini, governor of Fano, and Lisa Donati Donati is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Angelo Donati (1885-1960), Italian banker and philanthropist
* Baldassare Donati (1525/30–1603), Italian composer of the late Renaissance
*Buoso Donati (—ca. 1285), charact ...
. His younger brother, Ippolito Aldobrandini (1536–1605), became Pope Clement VIII
Pope Clement VIII ( la, Clemens VIII; it, Clemente VIII; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1592 to his death in March 1605.
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in 1592. He was the uncle of Cardinals Pietro Aldobrandini
Pietro Aldobrandini (31 March 1571 – 10 February 1621) was an Italian cardinal and patron of the arts.
Biography
He was made a cardinal in 1593 by his uncle, Pope Clement VIII. He took over the duchy of Ferrara in 1598 when it fell to the Pa ...
and Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini
Cinzio Aldobrandini (1551 – 1 January 1610) was an Italian cardinal.
Name
In some documents he is known as Cinzio Personeni Aldobrandini or Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini because, after settling in Romagna, the family varied its name according to ...
.
He was educated at the University of Ferrara
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, becoming a doctor of both laws
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on February 9, 1545.
From September 1551 until August 1552, he was governor of Rimini
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. He was a consistorial lawyer from 1554 to 1556. In 1556, he became an auditor
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of the Roman Rota
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.
Ecclesiastically, he was a cleric of Florence
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and Chaplain of His Holiness
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, on December 8, 1569 with Giulio Antonio Santorio">717, Pisan">708, Pisan); on 30–31 July 1716 [1717, Pisan and on 31 J ...Bishop of Imola
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. He was consecrated
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as a bishop ''in capella domus suæ solitæ habitationis'' by Scipione Rebiba
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, Archbishop of Pisa
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,_on_December_8,_1569Pope Pius V
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made him a cardinal priest
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in the consistory
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of May 17, 1570. He received the red hat
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and the titular church
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of Sant'Euphemia. On November 20, 1570, he opted for the titular church of San Simeone Profeta
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. The pope charged him with convincing Spain
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and the Republic of Venice
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to join a league against the Ottoman Empire
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or to contribute money to that cause. He participated in the papal conclave of 1572 that elected Pope Gregory XIII
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. He served as Grand Penitentiary
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from December 14, 1572 until his death.
In 1573, he was Prefect
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of the Signature of Apostolic Briefs. He died in Rome
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on September 7, 1573. He was buried in the Aldobrandini Chapel of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
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