GIULIO MARIA DELLA SOMAGLIA. - Cardinal, born in Piacenza on 29 July 1744, died in Rome on 30 March 1830. Of the noble Capece Anguillara family of the counts of S., in 1774 he was secretary of the Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, and then, in 1784, secretary of that of the Sacred Rites. Created cardinal on 9 June 1795, after the French occupation of Rome he was held prisoner and later removed from the city. He took part in the Conclave of Venice in 1800, after which Pius VII sent him as legate to the government of Rome. Summoned to Paris by order of Napoleon, he refused to attend the emperor’s second marriage and went into exile, first to Mazieres in 1810, and then to Charleville.
After the papal government was restored in Rome in 1814, he was appointed secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office and bishop of Frascati. In the pope’s absence, he governed the city and province from 22 March to 7 June 1815 in the capacity of president of the State junta. Already commendatory of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, on 29 May 1820, as dean, he became bishop of Ostia and Velletri. Under Leo XII, he served as Secretary of State from 1823 to 1828.