CARPEGNA. – A comital family of ancient origin, which took its name from the homonymous land of Montefeltro; it was illustrious in Dante’s time, who recalls a Guido (d. ca. 1280), a knight praised for greatness of spirit (Purg., XIV, 98). In the seventeenth century it gave two cardinals to the Church.
ULDERICO, cardinal, b. at Scavolino in Montefeltro ca. 1596; he was secretary to Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of Urban VIII, and a doctor of both laws. Bishop of Gubbio at the age of 33 on 23 September 1630, he was created cardinal on 28 November 1633. Transferred to the bishopric of Todi on 11 October 1638, he renounced this see on 31 August 1643. He thereafter lived continuously in the Curia and was bishop of Porto on 24 January 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 Signatura and secretary of the Congregation of Waters; under Alexander VII, auditor of the Rota; Clement X appointed him datary and shortly afterward cardinal of S. Pudenziana on 20 January 1670, and subsequently bishop of Sabina on 27 January 1698. He was cardinal vicar from 1670 to 1714 under five Pontiffs, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, and later of Rites; he was celebrated as a man of learning, for which reason he was also acclaimed in Arcadia, as well as a collector of books, medals, and coins, which later passed into the Vatican; he was a tenacious defender of ecclesiastical freedom and immunity, and zealous in restoring ecclesiastical discipline among the clergy, ecclesiastical institutes, and religious Orders. In particular, he promoted the Clementine Instructions of 20 January 1705 concerning the Quarantore. He died in Rome on 6 April 1714 and was buried at S. Maria in Vallicella.