GINNASI, DOMENICO. - Cardinal, born in Castel Bolognese to Francesco and Caterina Pallantieri around 1550; having graduated in law at Bologna in 1572, he entered the prelature under Gregory XIII and under Si-
He was a referendary of the Segnatura when he was appointed bishop of Siponto (17 Jan. 1586), and he later resigned it in favor of his nephew (5 Nov. 1607); during his episcopate he held two synods there (1588 and 1592). Having returned to Roma under Clemente VIII, he was governor of Fermo, then nuncio in Toscana to the Grand Duke Ferdinando, and subsequently (Feb. 1600) to Filippo III di Spagna, assisting in securing peace with Francia. Created cardinal of S. Pancrazio on 9 June 1604, he later successively held the suburbicarian sees of Palestrina, Porto, and Ostia-Vellettri (15 July 1630) and served as dean of the Sacred College. He died at the age of 89 in Roma, on 12 March 1639. He was a friend of Saints Camillo de Lellis and Giuseppe Calasanzio. He founded the monastery of Corpus Domini for the Teresian nuns and the church of S. Lucia near his palace, as well as a college for young students in Roma, and showed himself munificent toward his native town and toward the churches of Siponte and Ostia. A printed commentary by him on the Psalms survives (1630), and he left an unpublished one on the Pentateuch. He was buried in S. Lucia dei Ginnasi.