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Baluffi, Gaetano

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BALUFFI, GAETANO. - Cardinal, bishop of Imola, b. at Ancona on 28 March 1788, d. at Imola on 11 Nov. 1866. A priest in 1813, vicar general in 1824, bishop of Bagnorea from 1833 to 1836, in which year he was sent as apostolic nuncio to New Granada.

He remained there six years and gathered the material for his book L'America un tempo spagnuola riguardata sotto l'aspetto religioso dall'epoca del suo discoprimento sino al 1843, Ancona 1844, in 2 vols. His work is very important for the study of the American missions; in 1848 the German version appeared. In 1866 he became bishop of Imola, and in Dec. he was created cardinal. He died at Imola on 11 Nov. of the same year.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Streit, Bibl., III, 1927, pp. 338 and 364.

Giovanni B. Tragella

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 762.

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Tragella, Giovanni Battista. “Baluffi, gaetano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 762. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/baluffi-gaetano.

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Tragella, Giovanni Battista. “Baluffi, gaetano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 762. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/baluffi-gaetano.

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  author    = {Tragella, Giovanni Battista},
  title     = {Baluffi, gaetano},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {762},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/baluffi-gaetano}
}

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