ENRIQUEZ, ENRICO. - Cardinal, noble Neapolitan of the princely house of Squinzano, born at Campi (Lecce) on 30 Sept. 1701, died at Ravenna on 25 Apr. 1756. In his youth he entered the ecclesiastical state. Most prudent and disinterested in affairs, of lofty spirit, an enemy of idleness and flattery, he was beloved by all, most useful in his offices, and a patron of men of letters.
Benedict XIII appointed him governor of Macerata and San Marino; Clement XII made him governor of Frosinone (1734); Benedict XIV sent him as nuncio to the court of Madrid and afterwards, on 26 Nov. 1753, created him cardinal priest of S. Eusebio and legate of Ravenna.
Famous is his Italian translation of the work *De imitatione Christi*, to which he added many devotional notes. An excellent edition of this translation, with Lamennais’s reflections appended (v.), was issued in Venice in 1840 by the Tipografia Emiliana.