Lorenzo Magalotti (cardinal)
| Lorenzo Magalotti | |
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| Cardinal, Bishop of Ferrara | |
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Ferrara |
| Appointed | 5 May 1628 |
| Term ended | 19 September 1637 |
| Predecessor | Giambattista Leni |
| Successor | Francesco Macchiavelli |
| Other posts | Cardinal Secretary of State |
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| Consecration | 7 May 1628 (Bishop) by Volpiano Volpi |
| Created Cardinal | 7 October 1624 by Pope Urban VIII |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 1, 1584 Florence |
| Died | September 19, 1637 (aged 53) Ferrara |
| Buried | Cathedral of Ferrara |
Lorenzo Magalotti (1584–1637) was an Italian clergyman who was Cardinal Secretary of State under Pope Urban VIII from 1623 to 1628, and later Bishop of Ferrara till his death.
Lorenzo Magalotti was born on 1 January 1584 (1583 according to the Florentine calendar) in Florence to senator Vincenzo Magalotti, and Clarice Capponi. He studied law at the University of Perugia and completed his studies earning a doctorate in utroque iure in 1607 at the University of Pisa.
After the death of his father, in 1608 he moved to Rome and he took up a career in the administration of the Papal States: in 1609 he became referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature, from 1611 for three years he was appointed Vice-legate in Bologna. From 1616 to 1618 he was governor of Montaldo (the southern part of Marche) and from 1618 to 1619 he acted as Vice-legato of Patrimonio (the province of Viterbo) and in 1620 he was appointed governor of Ascoli. Returned to Rome, he was appointed commissary general of the Papal State, governor of Cascia and finally in 1623 secretary of the Sacra Consulta, the organ of governance of the Papal States out of Rome. It is in these years that Magalotti had a correspondence in Galileo Galilei.
Such rapid career was favored by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, whose brother, Carlo Barberini married in 1594 Lorenzo's sister, Costanza Magalotti.
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