CARPEGNA. - A comital family of ancient origin, which took its name from the homonymous territory in the Montefeltro; it was illustrious in the time of Dante, who recalled a Guido (d. ca. 1280), a knight praised for his greatness of soul (Purg., XIV, 98). In the 17th century it gave two cardinals to the Church.
ULDERICO, cardinal, b. at Scavolino in the Montefeltro ca. 1596; he was secretary to Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of Urban VIII, doctor of both laws. At the age of 33 he was appointed Bishop of Gubbio on 23 Sept. 1630, and was created cardinal on 28 Nov. 1633. Transferred to the see of Todi on 11 Oct. 1638, he resigned that see on 31 Aug. 1643. He thereafter lived continually 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.
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; Clement X named him datary and shortly thereafter cardinal of S. Pudenziana on 20 Jan. 1670, then Bishop of Sabina on 27 Jan. 1698. He served as cardinal vicar from 1670 to 1714 under five popes, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, then of Rites; he was celebrated as a man of learning, acclaimed also in the Accademia dell’Arcadia, a collector of books, medals and coins which later passed to the Vatican, tenacious in defending ecclesiastical liberty and immunity, zealous in restoring ecclesiastical discipline among the clergy, ecclesiastical institutions and religious orders. In particular he promoted the Clementine Instructions of 20 Jan. 1705 concerning the Quarantore. D. at Rome on 6 Apr. 1714, he was buried at S. Maria in Vallicella.