Alessandro Tanara (1680–1754) was an

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Roman Catholic cardinal. He was born in

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to the aristocratic Tanara family. Alessandro came to Rome in 1696 to study and work with the mentorship of his uncle, Cardinal

Sebastiano Antonio Tanara Sebastiano Antonio Tanara (10 April 1650 – 5 May 1724) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal. He studied law at the university of Bologna. He was internuncio in Flanders (1675-1687) and as, such, he was sent with secret mission to kin ...

. In 1743, after being ''auditore della Rota'' (auditor of the apostolic tribunal) for ten years, he was made cardinal by

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. He wrote a manuscript on the decisions of his court ''Sacrae Rotae Romana Decisiones''.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 250.

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1680 births 1754 deaths 18th-century Italian cardinals People from Bologna {{Italy-RC-cardinal-stub