Annibaldo Caetani di Ceccano (c. 1282 – 1350) was an Italian

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. His palace, the Livrée Ceccano at

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, begun in about 1335/1340, still survives; it is now a public library. He was

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from 1326 to 1328 and undertook diplomatic missions, for example setting up the 1343 truce between England and France. He was Bishop of Frascati from 1332 to 1350. He was

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(1342-1350), as well as

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from 1342 to 1344, and

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from 1331 to 1348. He is celebrated for the luxury of a feast he gave in 1343 for

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, an eye-witness account of which has survived.http://hypo.ge.ch/www/cliotexte//html/reforme.causes.html

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*Marc Dykmans, "Le cardinal Annibal de Ceccano (vers 1282-1350). Étude biographique et testament du 17 juin 1348", in ''Bulletin de l'institut historique belge de Rome'', 43, 1973, pp. 145–344, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Caetani, Annibaldo 1282 births 1350 deaths 14th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Archdeacons of Buckingham Archdeacons of Cornwall Archdeacons of Nottingham Archbishops of Naples Cardinal-bishops of Frascati 14th-century Italian cardinals People from the Province of Frosinone