Laudivio Zacchia
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| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
Laudivio Zacchia (1565 – 30 August 1637) was an
Early life
Zacchia was born in 1565 at the Castle of Vezzano, the son of Gaspare Zacchia and Veronica de' Nobili, of the signori of Vezzano.
It was not Zacchia's original intention to serve an ecclesiastic life. He originally married Laura Biassa and had a son and a daughter; Felice Zacchia (mother of Cardinal
Ecclesiastic career
On 17 August 1605 he was named
During the papacy of Pope Paul V, Zacchia was named vice-legate in Viterbo and vice-legate of the province of the Patrimony. Pope Gregory XV appointed Zacchia as nuncio to Venice, where he served from 1621 until December 1623.[3]
In 1626,
Between 1631 and his death in 1637, Zacchia was named crown-cardinal of the Republic of Genoa.
Zacchia was one of three cardinals who did not subscribe to the condemnation of Galileo in 1633.
Bid to remove Pope Urban VIII
According to his contemporary
As it was, Zacchia died the following year, in 1637, and was buried in the chapel of Saint Domenico at the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.
References
- ^ S. Miranda: Laudivio Zacchia
- ^ Catholic Hierarchy: Laudivio Cardinal Zacchia
- ^ Achille Gennarelli, "Istruzione al vescovo di Montefiascone che nel 1621 recavasi nunzio a Venezia," Archivio storico italiano, nuova serie, Vol. 7 (1858), pp. 3-35.
- ^ a b Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals by John Bargrave, edited by James Craigie Robertson (reprint; 2009)[page needed]
- ^ Note: Bargrave describes Zacchia as the uncle of Paolo Emilio Rondinini when in fact the younger cardinal was his grandson.
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