Latino Orsini (1411 – 11 August 1477) was an Italian
Cardinal
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Of the Roman branch of the
Orsini family
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and the owner of rich possessions, he entered the ranks of the Roman clergy as a youth, became
subdeacon
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Subdeacons in ...
, and as early as 10 March 1438, was raised to the
Episcopal See of Conza in Southern Italy. Transferred from this see to that of
Trani
Trani () is a seaport of Apulia, in southern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, by railway west-northwest of Bari. It is one of the capital cities of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
History
Overview
The city of ''Turenum'' appears for the fir ...
(Southern Italy) in 1439, he remained
archbishop of Trani
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie ( la, Archidioecesis Tranensis-Barolensis-Vigiliensis (-Nazarensis)) is a Latin rite archbishopric in the administrative province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, in the southeastern Italian regi ...
after his elevation to the cardinalate by
Pope Nicholas V on 20 December 1448.
In 1450, the
Archbishopric of Urbino was conferred upon him, which made it possible for him to take up his residence in Rome, the See of Trani being given to his brother, Giovanni Orsini, Abbot of
Farfa.
Pope Paul II
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from 30 August 1464 to his death in July 1471. When his maternal uncle Eugene IV ...
appointed him
papal legate
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for the Marches.
Pope Sixtus IV
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, for whose election in 1471 Cardinal Latino had worked energetically, named him
Camerlengo
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of the Holy Roman Church, granted him in 1472 the
Archdiocese of Taranto
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Papal States
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. He was also appointed commander-in-chief of the papal fleet in the war against the Turks, and, acting for the pope, crowned
Ferdinand I of Naples
Ferdinando Trastámara d'Aragona, of the Naples branch, universally known as Ferrante and also called by his contemporaries Don Ferrando and Don Ferrante (2 June 1424, in Valencia – 25 January 1494, in Kingdom of Naples, Naples), was the only so ...
.
He founded in Rome the monastery of
S. Salvatore in Lauro, which he richly endowed and in which he established the
canons regular
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, donating to it also numerous manuscripts. In the last years of his life he became deeply religious, though he had been worldly in his youth, leaving a natural son named Paul, whom, with the consent of the pope, he made heir of his vast possessions.
Honours
Orsini Rock in
Antarctica
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is named after Latino Orsini.
References
Acknowledgment
*
External links
*Kirsch, Johann Peter
"Orsini."''The Catholic Encyclopedia.'' Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911, p. 327. Retrieved: 2017-03-25.
Bust of Cardinal Orsini
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1411 births
1477 deaths
Latino
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15th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Albano
Cardinal-nephews
15th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
Bishops in Apulia
Camerlengos of the Holy Roman Church
Archbishops of Trani
Archbishops of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia