DUGNANI, ANTONIO. – Cardinal, born in Milan on 8 June 1748, died in Rome on 17 October 1818. After holding in the Curia the offices of consistorial advocate and auditor of the camerlengo, he was appointed by Pius VI, on 11 April 1785, titular archbishop of Rhodes.
He was then sent as nuncio to France in 1789, but a few years later had to return to Rome because of the Revolution. On 21 February 1794 he was created cardinal by Pius VI and assigned to Ravenna as legate, where he remained until the French occupation of that province. Having returned once again to Rome, he was given by Pius VII the office of prefect of the Segnatura of Justice and also became a member of various other Congregations. At first suburbicarian bishop of Albano, then of Porto and Santa Rufina, he administered his dioceses with great zeal.
Niccolò Del Re