Giovanni Carlo Boschi (

Faenza Faenza (, , ; rgn, Fènza or ; la, Faventia) is an Italian city and comune of 59,063 inhabitants in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated southeast of Bologna. Faenza is home to a historical manufacture of majolica-ware glazed eart ...

, 9 April 1715 – 6 September 1788) was an Italian clergyman who was made a cardinal by

Pope Clement XIII Pope Clement XIII ( la, Clemens XIII; it, Clemente XIII; 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 July 1758 to his death in February 1769. ...

in the consistory of 21 July 1766. He then served as

Major Penitentiary The Apostolic Penitentiary (), formerly called the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary, is a dicastery of the Roman Curia and is one of the three ordinary tribunals of the Apostolic See. The Apostolic Penitentiary is chiefly a tribu ...

from 1767 to 1788, and participated in the papal conclaves of 1769 and 1774–75. In the latter, the

jus exclusivae ''Jus exclusivae'' (Latin for "right of exclusion"; sometimes called the papal veto) was the right claimed by several Catholic monarchs of Europe to veto a candidate for the papacy. Although never formally recognized by the Catholic Church, the ...

was used on behalf of the

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to veto his election to the papacy. His other offices included prefect of the Congregation for the correction of the books of the Oriental Church.

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*http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbosc.html 1715 births 1788 deaths People from Faenza 18th-century Italian cardinals Major Penitentiaries of the Apostolic Penitentiary {{Italy-RC-cardinal-stub