Girolamo Rusticucci

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Girolamo Rusticucci
Coat of arms of Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci.

Girolamo Rusticucci (1537 – 14 June 1603) was an

Camerlengo (treasurer) and Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals, and Vicar General of Rome
.

He built a palace near Saint Peter's Square in Rome, located on a new piazza that was named after the cardinal.

Biography

Girolamo

jurisconsult, and his wife Diamante Leonardi.[1] As a young man, he studied literature and oratory.[1]

Rusticucci traveled to

court of Cardinal Michele Ghislieri, who later became Pope Pius V, as the cardinal's personal secretary.[1] When the cardinal became pope, he made Rusticucci a protonotary apostolic.[1] Also, when Cardinal Michele Bonelli, Pope Pius V's cardinal-nephew, was absent, the pope put Rusticucci in charge of managing most of the church's affairs.[1]

Pope Pius V made him a

Santa Susanna on 9 June 1570.[1]

On 16 June 1570 he was elected

Bishop of Segni, serving as co-consecrators.[1] As a bishop, he promoted educating his clergy along the lines provided by the Council of Trent.[1] He resigned the government of the diocese sometime before 29 November 1577.[1]

Pope Pius V then named him

papal conclave of 1592 that elected Pope Clement VIII.[1] The new pope confirmed him as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals, and he held that position from 14 February 1592 to 1593.[1]

On 18 August 1597 he opted for the titular church of

Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto e Santa Rufina on 19 February 1603.[1] He was the Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals.[1]

He died in Rome on 14 June 1603.[1] He was buried in Santa Susanna.[1]

Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni

In 1584 Rusticucci, after having bought a lesser palace and several houses at the west end of Via Alessandrina in Borgo, gave to Domenico Fontana the task to build a new palace there, the Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni.[2] The work was finished by Fontana`s nephew, Carlo Maderno.[3] After the work for the erection of Saint Peter's Square, the palace occupied the north side of a new piazza, Piazza Rusticucci, which was named after the cardinal.[3]

Sources

  • Gigli, Laura (1992). Guide rionali di Roma (in Italian). Vol. Borgo (III). Roma: Fratelli Palombi Editori.
    ISSN 0393-2710
    .

References

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  2. ^ Gigli (1992) p. 86
  3. ^ a b Gigli (1992) p. 88
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