NEGRI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO. — Cardinal, born in Genoa on 3 October 1629, died in Rome on 1 January 1713.
Created by Alessandro VII as a participating protonotary and referendary of both Signatures, he was subsequently given the government of Terni, Fabriano, Jesi, Spoleto, the Romagne, Umbria, and Campania, with the task of eliminating banditry. Clement IX enrolled him among the clerics of the Camera Apostolica.
Appointed general treasurer by Innocenzo XI, he restored the finances of the Papal States. On 2 September 1686, he was created by the same Pontiff cardinal deacon of S. Cesareo and sent as legate to Bologna, where, because of his intransigence,
he incurred the hatred of the magnates and the people. From 1687 to 1697 he was bishop of Faenza.