Pompeo Aldrovandi (23 September 1668 – 6 January 1752) was an Italian

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of the Roman

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Biography

Aldrovandi was born on 23 September 1668 in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, then part of the

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, and studied law at the

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, being awarded a doctorate in canon and civil law in 1691. He entered the Roman Curia five years later and then steadily climbed the career ladder in the administration and was

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priest in 1710, served as a ''chargé d'affaires'' in the nunciature in Spain from 1712 to 1716. On 5 October 1716 he became

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of Neocaesarea and was appointed Nuncio in Spain in 1717. However, the political troubles between the

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and the

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led to his being recalled to

, where he stayed until the death of

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. On 23 March 1729, he was made titular Patriarch of Jerusalem and was made Governor of

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and later in 1733 he was appointed Vice-chamberlain of the

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. Aldrovandi was created Cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 March 1734 with the title of Sant'Eusebio. In 1734 he was appointed archbishop with personal title to the diocese of Montefiascone. He participated in the conclave of 1740, where the elections were stalled for forty days because many cardinals kept voting for him, despite their being unable to elect him, as they could not secure the required two-thirds majority. In the conclave Cardinal Lambertini, who was later elected

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, said to the College of Cardinals: "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti; a statesman, Aldrovandi; an honest man, me."

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of his time. Aldrovandi served as

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of His Holiness from 1740 to 1743. He died in 1752 at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldrovandi, Pompeo 1668 births 1752 deaths Clergy from Bologna 18th-century Italian cardinals Bishops of Montefiascone 18th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Apostolic Camera Apostolic Nuncios to Spain Latin Patriarchs of Jerusalem