ENRIQUEZ, ENRICO. - Cardinal, Neapolitan nobleman of the princes of Squinzano, b. at Campi (Lecce) on 30 Sept. 1701, d. at Ravenna on 25 Apr. 1756. In his youth he embraced the ecclesiastical state. Most prudent and disinterested in affairs, great of soul, an enemy of idleness and slowness, he was dear to all, most useful in offices, and a patron of men of letters.
Benedetto XIII appointed him governor of Macerata and S. Marino; Clemente XII made him governor of Frosinone (1734); Benedetto XIV sent him as nuncio to the court of Madrid and 10 years later, on 26 Nov. 1753, created him cardinal priest of S. Eusebio and legate of Ravenna.
His Italian translation of the work De imitazione Christi is famous; to it he added many notes for prayer. An excellent edition of this translation, with the reflections of Lamennais (v.) added, was produced in Venice in 1840 by the Emiliana press.
BBL.: B. Carrara, Elogio del card. E., Poenza 1756; Francesco A. Zaccaria, in Annali d'Italia, I, Modena 1762, part 2°, p. 234; G. Moroni, Dis. di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, XXI, p. 219.
Felice De Mareto