PIETRO. – Cardinal, born in Rome in 1572, where he died on 10 February 1621. His uncle, Pope Clement VIII, appointed him apostolic protonotary, consistorial advocate, prefect of Castel S. Angelo, and finally cardinal on 17 September 1593. Together with his cousin Cinzio, he was entrusted with the direction of political affairs. In 1598, through the Treaty of Faenza, he secured the annexation of Ferrara to the Papal States. Subsequently he was given the legation of Ferrara and later became prefect of the Segnatura, of the Brevi, and Camerlengo of the Roman Church. In 1600 he negotiated the Peace of Lyon between Henry IV and Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy. He obtained from Henry IV the recall of the Jesuits to France. In 1604 he received the archbishopric of Ravenna, where he withdrew upon the death of Clement VIII. In 1620 he became bishop of Sabina. He had the famous Aldobrandini villa at Frascati built. – Vedi Tav. LIX.
Peter
BIBL.: L. Fumi, La legazione in Francia del card. P. A. narrata da lui medesimo e pubblicata in occasione del Congresso internazionale, Città di Castello 1903 (with a bibliography of the manuscripts on p. XIII, n. 1); P. Richard, La légation Aldobrandini et le traité de Lyon, Lyon 1903; C. Manfroni, Nuovi documenti intorno alla legazione del card. A. in Francia, in Archivio d. Soc. Rom. di Storia Patria, 13 (1890), pp. 101–50. Emma Santovito
GIACOMO. – Apostolic nuncio, born in Florence, died there on 10 March 1606. On 13 August 1545 he was appointed a canon of the Collegiate Church of S. Lorenzo, but resigned the canonry five years later. Under Sixtus V he held numerous important offices, including that of apostolic vice-nuncio and, in 1591, governor of Ancona and Fano. On 15 November 1593 he was appointed by Clement VIII bishop of Troia, and three years later apostolic nuncio to Naples. He was buried in Florence in the Church of S. Lorenzo.
BIBL.: Cappelletti, XXI, p. 462; P. Litta, Famiglie celebri d'Italia, I, Milan 1819. Emma Santovito
ALESSANDRO. – Cardinal, born in Florence on 1 May 1667, died in Ferrara on 14 Aug. 1734. Having completed his studies at the Roman Seminary, he was sent in 1699 as vice-legate to Ferrara, and in 1702 Clement XI appointed him commissioner of the papal forces, precisely at the time of the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1706, having returned to Rome, he received the office of cleric of the Apostolic Camera. He was then appointed nuncio, first to Naples, then to Venice, and finally, in 1720, to Spain, at the court of Philip V, where he remained throughout the pontificate of Benedict XIII. In 1730 Clement XII created him cardinal of the title of Santi Quattro, and in the same year entrusted him with the legation of Ferrara. He was buried in the church of the Discalced Carmelites.
BIBL.: L. Cardella, Memorie storiche de' cardinali, VIII, Rome 1704, pp. 246–47; P. Litta, Famiglie celebri d'Italia, I, Milan 1819. Emma Santovito
Cite this article
“PIETRO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 458. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/pietro.