SANTORI (SANTORIO), GIULIO ANTONIO. - Cardinal, born on 6 June 1532 at Caserta, died on 28 May 1602 at Rome. He studied civil law at Naples, became a lawyer, but, renouncing the world, entered the clergy.
He was first vicar general of Cardinal Alfonso Carafà, archbishop of Naples; then archbishop of S. Severina in Calabria (6 May 1566); and finally Cardinal of the Curia on 17 May 1570, where for 32 years he held important offices relating not only to the West but also to the East (prefect of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, co-founder with Gregorio XIII of the Greek College of S. Atanasio [1577]). Twice he came close to the tiara in the Conclaves from which Sisto V and Clemente VIII emerged.
A man of broad culture and adviser to seven Popes, he left, in addition to numerous liturgical, historical, and juridical pamphlets, very important detailed accounts concerning his life and offices: the Antobiografia; the Diario concittoriale; the Libri delle mie private udienze. In the field of liturgy he devoted himself to the revision of the Rituale (v. RITUALE ROMANO).