ALBERGATI, ANTONIO. – Born in Bologna on 16 September 1566, died on 4 January 1634. He was vicar general and archdeacon in Milan (1602–1607), a referendary of the Segnatura, governor of Todi, and subsequently apostolic nuncio in Cologne (1610–20). He worked actively at the diets (1612 and 1619)
for the union of the Catholic princes and the conversion of the Protestants. He had also been preconized and created bishop of Bisceglie (1609). He energetically defended ecclesiastical immunity during his nunciature in Lisbon. Around 1622 he became auxiliary to Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi in Bologna, where he remained until Ludovisi’s death (1632). His tomb is in Rome, in the church of S. Maria della Scala. He wrote ascetical and legal works.
BIBL.: G. Fantuzzi, Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi, I, Bologna 1784, pp. 92–95; Mazzucelli, I, 1, p. 278 ag. Giuseppe Sanità