Vitellozzo Vitelli (1531 – 19 November 1568) was an Italian

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of the

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Life

Vitelli was born in 1531 in

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, in the

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, of Captain Alessandro Vitellozzi, signore of

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, and Angela di Troilo Rossi, and educated at the

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. He was ordained a cleric of Città di Castello and appointed

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there on 20 March 1554, an office he would resign in 1560. He went to

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in February 1556 and was created

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15 March 1557, receiving the deaconry of Ss. Sergio e Bacco on 24 March. He opted for the deaconry of S. Maria in Portico Octaviae in March 1559 and that of

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in November 1564. He held numerous administrative posts and participated in the conclaves of 1559, which elected

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, and of 1565–1566, which elected

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. He died on 19 November 1568 in Rome and was buried in his titular church of Santa Maria in Via Lata.

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