Luigi Capponi
Luigi Capponi (1582 – 6 April 1659) was an Italian Catholic
Biography
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Capponi was born in 1582, the son of Senator Francesco Capponi and Ludovica Macchiavelli. The Capponi family had extensive links to Italian political circles and to senior members of the Catholic Church.
On 24 November 1608 he was elevated to cardinal and was installed as cardinal-deacon of
In 1621, he participated in the one-day-long
Over the next decade, Capponi was appointed cardinal-priest at a range of churches including
In 1642 Capponi was appointed co-legate of
In 1645 he resigned as archbishop and was appointed
In 1650, Capponi was visited by French adventurer, François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz. La Boullaye dedicated the first printed edition of his work to the cardinal.[5] The preface includes an illustration of the adventurer presenting the work to Capponi.
Capponi died on 6 April 1659.
Capponi made substantial renovations to the Villa La Pietra in Florence, adding the Baroque exterior, thought to have been designed by Carlo Fontana.
References
- Carlo Barberini, brother of Maffeo Barberini who Capponi would later help elect as Pope Urban VIII
- ^ S. Miranda: Luigi Capponi
- ^ Catholic Hierarchy: Luigi Cardinal Capponi
- ^ G Catholic: Roman Curia – Librarians of the Roman Catholic Church
- ^ Muqarnas – 21 Essays in Honor of J.M. Rogers: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World (compiled) by Gülru Necipoğlu, Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Anna Contadini (2005)
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