ACCORAMBONI, GIUSEPPE. — Cardinal, born at Preci in 1672, died at Frascati in 1747. Under the guidance of the celebrated Luca Palma the Younger, he deepened his knowledge of the juridical sciences, gaining great renown in the Roman Curia. He served first as Auditor of the Rota, then as a curial advocate and auditor to Cardinal Michelangelo Conti; upon the latter’s election as Pope Innocent XIII, he was appointed Subdatary and Canon of St Peter’s, and subsequently titular Archbishop of Philippi. Benedict XIII named him his auditor, granted him the Abbey of St Ilaria in Galbiate, and on 20 September 1728 created him Cardinal with the title of Santa Maria in Trasportina, while also entrusting him with the administration of the Diocese of Imola.
During his eleven years of governance, he enriched the cathedral, restored the seminary, visited the entire diocese, and held the Synod of 1738. After resigning the see the following year, he retired to Rome, where he carried out remarkable activity in the Roman congregations of which he was a valued member. In 1743 he was transferred to the suburbicarian See of Frascati, which he governed until his death at the age of seventy-five. His tomb is preserved in Rome, in the church of Sant’Ignazio (Chapel of San Luigi).