BAGNO, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO GUIDI di. - Cardinal, humanist and diplomat, b. in Florence on 4 Oct. 1578, of Romagna descent. He studied in Florence, Pisa and Bologna. Having come to Rome he entered the prelature and followed as secretary Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, legate in France. On his return he was appointed vice-legate of Avignon, and subsequently of the Marches and of Campania. He was governor in several cities of the Papal State; nuncio in Flanders in 1621, bishop of Cervia and nuncio in Paris in 1627, created cardinal by Urban VIII in the same year and proclaimed in the Consistory of 19 Nov. 1629. Bishop of Rieti in 1635, he resigned the bishopric in 1638 and, having returned to Rome, died there on 25 July 1641.

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BIBL.: P. Litta, Famiglie celebri italiane, suppl., I, «Guidi di Romagna», tav. VII; E. Rodocanachi, Les derniers temps du siège de la Rochelle (1628). Relation du Nouve apostolique, Paris 1899; G. F. Guidi di Bagno, Correspondance, published by B. de Meester, 2 vols., Brussels-Rome 1938 (Analecta Vaticana-Bèlgica, 2nd series, V); Pastor, XIII, p. 118 ff.

Maria Morseletto

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