
Cornelio Bentivoglio (27 March 1668 – 30 December 1732 in
Ferrara
Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...
) was an Italian nobleman and
cardinal
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**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
.
Born at
Ferrara
Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...
to the powerful
Bentivoglio family
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, and a relative of the cardinal
Guido Bentivoglio
Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona (4 October 15797 September 1644) was an Italian cardinal, statesman and historian.
Early years
A member of the Ferrara branch of the influential Bentivoglio family of Bologna, he was the younger son of marchese Co ...
(1579 – 1644). Cornelio went to
Rome
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at an early age and was appointed Archbishop of
Carthage
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.
In 1712, he was appointed
nuncio
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to Paris. He locked horns with the
Jansenists
Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain development ...
, led by
Pasquier Quesnel
Pasquier Quesnel, CO (; 14 July 1634 – 2 December 1719) was a French Jansenist theologian.
Life
Quesnel was born in Paris, and, after graduating from the Sorbonne with distinction in 1653, he joined the French Oratory in 1657. There he so ...
in Paris, and was recalled after the death of
Louis XIV of France
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in 1715.
[ He became cardinal in 1719,][ and named legate for the province of Romagna until 1726. He was then named Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary at Rome, a position which he held until his death.][ He is buried in the church of ]Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century Churches of Rome, church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere rioni of Rome, rione. It is dedicated to the Roman martyr Saint Cecilia (early 3rd century AD) and serves as the conventual church for the adja ...
.Memorie istoriche di letterati ferraresi
Opera postuma di Giannandrea Barotti and completed Giovanni Andrea Barotti, Ferrara, 1791, pages 301-303.
References
1668 births
1732 deaths
Religious leaders from Ferrara
Nobility from Ferrara
18th-century Italian cardinals
Apostolic nuncios to France
Ambassadors of Spain to the Holy See
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