AGUCCHI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Apostolic nuncio. Born on 20 November 1570 to a Bolognese family, died in 1632 at Motta di Livenza. He was secretary to his uncle, Cardinal Filippo Sega, during the latter's legation in France. He later accompanied Cardinal Aldobrandini on his embassy for the Treaty of Lyon and the marriage of Henry IV (1600-1601), and subsequently was also at Ravenna and Rome in his service until 1615. Private secretary to Pope Gregory XV, he was appointed by Urban VIII nuncio to Venice, where he remained for eight years, until his death. A historian, scholar and mathematician, he wrote works in these fields, some of which are still unpublished.

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BIBL.: G. Fantuzzi, Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi, I, Bologna 1781, pp. 66-71; C. Manfioni, Nuovi documenti intorno alla legazione del card. Pietro Aldobrandini in Francia, in Arch. d. Soc. Rom. di St. Patr., 13 (1890), pp. 101-105; Pastor, XIII, pp. 105-170; A. Zanelli, Le relazioni di Venezia e Urbano VIII durante la nunciatura di mons. Giov. A., Venezia 1934.

Mario Niccoli

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Agucchi, Giovanni Battista

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