Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona

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Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona.

Troiano Acquaviva of Aragon (14 January 1696 – 20 March 1747) was an Italian

Catholic archbishop. Acquaviva was from a noble family with close ties to the Spanish crown; he was the nephew of Cardinal Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona. Created cardinal in 1732, the following year he became cardinal-protector of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, for which he provided a new façade. In 1734 King Philip V of Spain appointed him Spanish ambassador to the Holy See
.

Biography

Troiano Acquaviva was born in Atri, the son of Gian Girolamo Acquaviva d'Aragona, 13th duke of Atri, and his second wife, Eleonora Spinelli. His brother, Girolamo Acquaviva, succeeded to the family title. Troiano was educated in Rome under his uncle Cardinal

Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona. From March to August 1721 he was pontifical vice-delegate in Bologna. In the same year Pope Innocent XIII gave him the government of Ancona, from which he was recalled in 1725 by Pope Benedict XIII
, who wanted him to be his major domo in Rome.

Troiano Acquaviva, was

Archbishop of Larissa.[1]

He was created

Clement XII in the consistory of 1 October 1732, and on 17 November that year he received the titular designation of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, whose restoration was not quite complete. On 19 January 1733 succeeded his uncle at the titular church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.[1] Acquaviva underwrote a new façade. In 1732, Charles of Bourbon
began to make use of Cardinal Acquaviva as his unofficial, representative to the Holy See.

In 1734

Archbishop of Monreale
.

He participated in the conclave of 1740,

Benedict XIV, in the matter of the Church's charges against King Charles III of Naples
during the war for the succession to the throne of Austria.

On the recommendation[4] of the powerful Don Lelio Caraffa, Duke of Maddaloni.[5] he employed a young Giacomo Casanova as a clerical scribe. When Casanova became the scapegoat for a scandal involving a local pair of star-crossed lovers, Cardinal Acquaviva dismissed him, thanking him for his service,[6]

From April 1743 he was cardinal protector of Spain and from 3 February 1744 to 25 January 1745, Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.[7]

In 1745, succeeding his brother Domenico, he had become the eighteenth

Duke of Atri. He died on 20 March 1747, in Rome, after a long and painful illness; Pope Benedict XIV presided at his funeral. He was buried in the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ a b c Miranda, Salvador. "Acquaviva d'Aragona, Troiano", The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Florida International University, 2018
  2. ISBN 9781317642480
  3. ^ California State University of Northridge website, Sede Vacante 1740
  4. ^ Milano, ed. Dall'Oglio, 1964, p. 230 e capp. IX-X
  5. ^ De rebus ad Velitras gestis Commentarius, di Castruccio Bonamici; Delle cose operate presso Velletri nell'anno 1744 e della guerra italica, tomi 2, trad. it. di Ignazio Montanari, Lucca 1841, vol 1, pp.XXVI-XXXV.
  6. ISBN 978-0-7181-0570-9
  7. ^ http://www.fondazionegbvico.org/fvico/xxx/storia.htm[permanent dead link]

Bibliography

  • Corral Corredoira, Pilar Diez del (2017). "'Il dilettevole trattenimento': El teatro del cardinal Troyano Acquaviva en el Palacio de España en Roma". Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography. 42 (1–2): 59–69.
    ISSN 1522-7464
    .
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