Pompeo Aldrovandi (23 September 1668 – 6 January 1752) was an
Italian
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cardinal
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of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Biography
Aldrovandi was born on 23 September 1668 in
Bologna, then part of the
Papal States
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, and studied law at the
local university
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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
ordained
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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
titular
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archbishop
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of
Neocaesarea
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and was appointed Nuncio in Spain in 1717. However, the political troubles between the
Holy See
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and the
King of Spain
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led to his being recalled to
Bologna, where he stayed until the death of
Pope Clement XI
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. On 23 March 1729, he was made
titular Patriarch of Jerusalem and was made Governor of
Rome
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and later in 1733 he was appointed Vice-chamberlain of the
Apostolic Camera
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.
Aldrovandi was created
Cardinal priest
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in the
consistory of 24 March 1734 with the title of
Sant'Eusebio
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. In 1734 he was appointed archbishop with personal title to the
diocese of Montefiascone
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. 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
Pope Benedict XIV
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, said to the
College of Cardinals
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: "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti; a statesman, Aldrovandi; an honest man, me."
Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti (1664–1742) was professor of philosophy at the College of Saint Thomas, the future
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum''.
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/ref> Gotti was perhaps the leading Thomist
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of his time.
Aldrovandi served as Datary
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of His Holiness from 1740 to 1743. He died in 1752 at Montefiascone
Montefiascone is a town and '' comune'' of the province of Viterbo, in Lazio, central Italy. It stands on a hill on the southeast side of Lake Bolsena, about north of Rome.
History
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.
References
External links
Short biography
{{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