CORRADINI, PIETRO MARCELLINO. - Cardinal, b. at Sezze in 1658, d. at Rome on 8 February 1743. Of humble origins, he acquired in the Curia a reputation as an excellent jurist. He was auditor of Cardinal Pamphili, and sub-datary under Innocent XII and then under Clement XI. He was created cardinal by the latter on 18 May 1712, and in 1718 he became prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council; he was entrusted with all the great affairs, which he always handled with great integrity. He had a part in the founding of the hospital of S. Gallicano. In the Conclave of 1730 he was excluded from the papacy through the intervention of the king of Spain. To him is owed a Storia della città di Sezze and Vetus Latium profanum et sacrum (12 vols., Rome 1704-45).

From 25 December 1734 he was bishop of Frascati; he was buried in S. Maria in Trastevere, where a fine monument was erected to him.

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BIBL.: Anon., Petri Marcellini S.R.E. card. C. episcopi Tusculani elogium historicum, in Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filosofici del Calogero, XXXVII, Venice 1747, pp. 331-39; Fr. Fabi Montani, Elogio storico del card. P. M. C., Rome 1844; Pastor, XV, passim: XVI, I, pp. 41, 68; XVI, II, p. 353.

Mario Zazzetta

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Corradini, Pietro Marcellino

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