CARPEGNA. — A comital family of ancient origin, which took its name from the like-named land of Montefeltro; it was illustrious in the time of Dante, who recalls a Guido (d. ca. 1280), a knight praised for greatness of soul (Purg., XIV, 98). In the 17th century it gave the Church two cardinals.

ULDERICO, cardinal, b. at Scavolino in Montefeltro ca. 1596; he was secretary of Card. Antonio Barberini, brother of Urban VIII, and a doctor in both laws. Bishop of Gubbio at the age of 33 on 23 Sept. 1630, he was created cardinal on 28 Nov. 1633. Transferred to the bishopric of Todi on 11 Oct. 1638, he resigned that see on 31 Aug. 1643. He lived thereafter always in the Curia and was bishop of Porto on 24 Jan. 1679, when he died at the age of 83 and was buried at S. Andrea della Valle.

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BIBL.: P. A. Guerrieri, Genealogia di casa C., Rimini 1667, p. 94; G. De Novaes, Elementi della storia de' Sommi Pontefici, ecc., IX, Rome 1822, p. 244 (the date of birth is erroneous, cf. Eubel-Gauchat, IV, passim): Pastor, XIV, passim.

GASPARE, cardinal, b. 8 May 1625; under Innocent X he was auditor of the Segnatura and secretary of the Congregation of Waters; under Alexander VII auditor of the Rota; by Clement X he was appointed datary and shortly afterward cardinal of S. Pudenziana on 20 Jan. 1670, then bishop of Sabina on 27 Jan. 1698. He was cardinal vicar from 1670 to 1714 under five Pontiffs, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, then of the Rites; he was celebrated as a man of learning, for which he was also acclaimed in the Arcadia, a collector of books, medals and coins which later passed to the Vatican, a tenacious defender of ecclesiastical liberty and immunity, zealous in establishing ecclesiastical discipline among the clergy, ecclesiastical institutes and religious Orders. In particular he was the promoter of the Clementine Instructions of 20 Jan. 1705 concerning the Forty Hours. He died in Rome on 6 Apr. 1714 and was buried at S. Maria in Vallicella.

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BIBL.: P. A. Guerrieri, op. cit., p. 68; G. De Novaes, op. cit., X, p. 212; Pastor, XIV and XV, passim; A. De Santi, L'orazione delle Quarant'ore, ecc., Rome 1919, p. 321 ff.

Maria Morselletto

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