Giovanni Battista Savelli

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Giovanni Battista Savelli (1422 - 18 September 1498, Castel Gandolfo) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal. He was born into the aristocratic Savelli family, which had produced two popes: Honorius III (1216–1227) and Honorius IV (1285–1287) and numerous cardinals carrying this surname: Bertrando, Silvio, Giulio, Fabrizio, Paolo and Domenico Savelli.

Early life and education

He was born in Rome. There is no data about his education. As a young man, he was appointed protonotary apostolic. He was named governor of Bologna during 1468 - 1470.

Cardinalate

Savelli was created cardinal

cardinal deacon by Pope Sixtus IV in the consistory of 15 May 1480 and received the deaconry of Santi Vito e Modesto, Rome. He was appointed legate to Genoa to help negotiate a reconciliation between the feuding Fregoso and the Adorno families, and to supervise the arming of the papal fleet against the Ottoman Empire
.

He developed a dispute with the Orsini

conclave of 1492. Administrator of the see of Mallorca (27 March 1493 - 31 August 1492. Named Archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica from September 1492 until his death, on 18 September 1498, in his family's domain of Castel Gandolfo
.

His body was transferred to

Santa Maria in Aracoeli. His tomb is attributed to the studio of the sculptor Andrea Bregno.[1]

References

  1. ^ Renascence: The Sculptured Tombs of the Fifteenth Century in Rome, by Gerald Stanley Davies, page 250.

External links

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