Cesare Facchinetti

Cesare Facchinetti ( born September 29, 1608 Bologna, † January 30, 1683 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

The son of the Marchese Ludovico, the Resident Representative of Bologna was at the Roman court, and Violante Austriaca di Correggio was the great-nephew of Innocent IX. and nephew of Cardinal Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce († 1606 ). In 1628 he received a doctorate in law, 1632, he went to his father's urging to Rome to begin a career in the Curia. His ascent he owed the close relationships he could to the Barberini, especially for Kardinalnepoten Francesco Barberini, socialize. First, he was appointed Referendarius utriusque signaturae, according to other duties, he was in 1638 secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office. From 1639 to 1642 he served as nuncio and Titular Archbishop of Damietta at the Spanish court in Madrid, first as an associate representative for the conclusion of an anti-Turkish alliance, which did not materialize, then the successor Lorenzo Campeggis, which he would later follow as Bishop of Senigallia. On July 13, 1643, he was received by Pope Urban VIII in the College of Cardinals. He was assigned the titular church of Santi Quattro Coronati, in 1671, he moved to San Lorenzo in Lucina. He was from 1643 to 1655 Bishop of Senigallia. Since he could no longer play a role after the death of Urban VIII in 1644 and the defeat of the Barberini at the curia, he devoted himself for over two decades mainly pastoral tasks in its respective dioceses, but returned frequently for long stays in Rome. Also contacts to Spain, he was upright. Archbishop of Spoleto, he was from 1655 to 1672, Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina 1672-1683, Porto and Santa Rufina in 1679 until his death in 1683. As dean of the College of Cardinals, he was also bishop of Ostia 1680-1683.

As a patron, he is not particularly emerged, even if the Jesuit Honoré Fabri him in 1655 his Dialogi physici devoted, in which he let the Cardinal occur as a representative of the Copernican worldview. In the interest of family policy, he succeeded, with the support of the Barberini, to arrange a marriage between his only cousin Violante Facchinetti and Giambattista Pamphili.

173584
de