Filippo Carandini (6 September 1729 - 28 August 1810) was an

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Biography

He was born in

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to the aristocratic Carandini family. He was elevated to Cardinal in January 1787. He participated in the Papal Conclave of 1799-1800, held in Venice. In 1790, he accused prince trying to poison him in retribution for the cardinal having counseled his second wife, Donna Giovanna Medici di Ottaiano to abandon her new husband. For this, Chigi employed two men Sebastiani and Bandini to poison the cardinal; the plot was uncovered, and Chigi lived in exile in Padua til 1793.Rome, Its Princes, Priests and People: Volume 2
by David Silvagni, Fanny McLaughlin, 1885, page 135-136. Carandini was a close friend of

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Bibliography

* Bressan, Dino, and Ronald T. Ridley. ''The Prince as Poisoner: The Trial of Sigismondo Chigi, Rome 1790''. Studi e Testi, 494. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2015. 1729 births 1810 deaths 19th-century Italian cardinals People from Pesaro Cardinals created by Pope Pius VI Carandini family {{Italy-RC-cardinal-stub