SCOTTI GALLARATI, Filippo. – Cardinal, born in Milan on 25 Feb. 1747, died at Gualtieri near Orvieto on 7 Oct. 1819.
Admitted to the prelature by Pius VI, he was Apostolic Protonotary, Ponens of the Consulta, and Inquisitor at Malta (1785). In 1792 he was elected titular Archbishop of Side and Apostolic Nuncio to Florence, and three years later to Venice, where he was when the Conclave was held which resulted in the election of Pius VII (1800). The new Pope immediately appointed him his Master of the Chamber; on 23 Feb. 1801 he was made a cardinal, and in 1802 Apostolic Visitor of the hospital of S. Maria della Consolazione in Rome, where he worked strenuously to improve the care of the sick. He was among the cardinals who refused to attend Napoleon’s marriage to Maria Luisa and was subsequently exiled to Sedan, Charleville, and Toulon. After the return of Pius VII to Rome, he became Archpriest of the Liberian Basilica (1814) and Prefect of the Economy of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide (1817).