Guido Calcagnini (25 September 1725 in
Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
– 17 August 1807 in
Osimo) was an Italian cardinal and titular archbishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
He was born into a noble family, as the son of the count palatine Cesare Calcagnini, marquess of Fusignano and a relation of cardinal Carlo Leopoldo Calcagnini. He studied at the Collegio dei Nobili di San Carlo at Modena and then at the Sapienza in Rome – at the latter, on 15 May 1747, he gained a doctorate in theology and
in utroque iure
A doctor of both laws, from the Latin ''doctor utriusque juris'', or ''juris utriusque doctor'', or ''doctor juris utriusque'' ("doctor of both laws") (abbreviations include: JUD, IUD, DUJ, JUDr., DUI, DJU, Dr.iur.utr., Dr.jur.utr., DIU, UJD a ...
.
He entered the papal court as private chamberlain to the pope in 1746.
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1725 births
1807 deaths
18th-century Italian cardinals
18th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
Religious leaders from Ferrara
Apostolic Nuncios to the Kingdom of Naples
Cardinals created by Pope Pius VI
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