Giuseppe Maria Feroni (30 April 1693 – 15 November 1767) was a

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of the

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, and camerlengo from 1760–1761. A famous bust of him by Andre-Jean Lebrun is in the collection of the

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Biography

Feroni came from the wealthy noble family of the Marquises of Bellavista. He was the son of Marchese Fabio Feroni and Costanza della Stufa. He studied at the

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in Rome, the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy, and

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, where in 1716 he was awarded his doctorate. On 16 January 1716 he entered the Roman prelature as a candidate for the Apostolic Protonotary, and on 23 January that year he became a clerk at the Apostolic Signatura. He was ordained a priest on 22 October 1719.

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appointed him a

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of the

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. He was appointed a titular archbishop on 10 May 1728.

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ordained him to the episcopate on 30 May 1728 in

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. His

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were Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese, Titular Archbishop of '' Traianopolis'', and Nicola Saverio Santamaria,

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of Cyrene. In the consistory of 26 November 1753 he was appointed

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and was installed on 10 December 1753 as

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in the titular church ''

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''. He participated in the Conclave of 1758, which chose Pope

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. From 28 January 1760 to 16 February 1761 he was Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals. After the death of Cardinal Fortunato Tamburini on 9 August 1761, Feroni became prefect of the Congregation of the Rites. On 17 December 1764 he received the titular church ''

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'' as his see. In autumn 1765 he moved to

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, where he was

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of the Abbey of San Galgano. (By that time, the abbey was already in decline, so this was probably his retirement home). Feroni died on 15 November 1767 in Rome of a

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. His final resting place with an elegant tomb is in his titular church ''Santa Cecilia in Trastevere''.

Sources

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