Lazzaro Pallavicini or Pallavicino (1602/1603 – 21 April 1680) was a

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of the Catholic Church starting on 19 May 1670. He was one of 22 siblings born in Genoa, Italy. His ancestors and kin included cardinals and Genoese doges. Cardinal Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicino (1719-1785) was his nephew. He participated in the

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s of 1669, 1670, and 1676.Catholic Hierarchy
website. He amassed much of the art collection now held by the Galleria Pallavicini at the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome.

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1603 births 1680 deaths Clergy from Genoa 17th-century Italian cardinals {{italy-RC-cardinal-stub