Ludovico Valenti
Cardinal

Ludovico Valenti
Cardinal-Priest
ChurchSanta Croce in Gerusalemme
DioceseRimini
Elected24 September 1759
In office18 October 1763
Orders
Consecrationby Pope Clement XIII
Created cardinal24 September 1759
by Pope Clement XIII
Personal details
Born27 April 1695
Trevi, Diocese of Spoleto IT
Died18 October 1763
Rome IT
BuriedSanta Croce in Gerusalemme
NationalityItalian

Ludovico Valenti (born in Trevi, Umbria, 27 April 1695 – died in Rome, 18 October 1763) was an Italian nobleman, ecclesiastical lawyer, papal bureaucrat, Cardinal, and Bishop of Rimini.

Family and Youth

Ludovico was the son of Alessandro Valenti and Paolina Venturelli. He had two siblings, Gaetano and Gaetana. His uncle Ferdinando was a Consistorial Advocate (lawyer practicing in the ecclesiastical courts of the Roman Curia). A distant relative was Cardinal Erminio Valenti (1564-1618), Bishop of Faenza, who had also had a career as an ecclesiastical lawyer.[1] Benedetto Valenti was a scholar and canon lawyer under popes Clement VII and Paul III.[2]

Legal career

He pursued legal studies at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, obtaining a doctorate in utroque iure on 20 March 1719. He began a career as a lawyer by serving as a coadjutor (assistant) to his uncle Ferdinando, the Consistorial Advocate.

At the Conclave of 31 March-8 May 1721, he was appointed Commissary by the Cardinal Camerlengo, Annibale Albani. The assignment proved to be more onerous that usual, due to the length of the Conclave.

Pope Benedict XIII (1724-1730) named Ludovico a fiscal advocate of the Apostolic Camera.[3] He was also a voting member of the Tribunal of the Segnatura of Grace.[4]

On 31 March 1737 he was ordained a priest.[5]

On 22 November 1737 he was named Rector of the Sapienza. He held the position until August 1741.[6]

By 1742, Valenti was consultor of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. He was also Vicar of Santa Maria in Trastevere.[7]

In 1742, as Referendary of both the Segnatura and Promoter of the Faith,[8] he was charged by Benedict XIV with the exhumation of the body of Camillo de Lellis.[9]

In 1747 he was dispatched to Malta as papal legate of Pope Benedict XIV to award the sword and hat to Manuel Pinto da Fonseca, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It is noted that Valenti was Chamberlain of Honor.[10]

In 1748, as Refendary of both signatures, he presided at the exhumation and formal identification of the body of Joseph of Cupertino.[11] In 1752, he was Promoter of the Faith in the process for the Canonization of Joseph of Cupertino.[12]

Monsignor Ludovico Valenti was assessor at the Holy Office, Protonotario Apostolico sopranumerario non partecipante, and a member of the Reverend Fabric of S. Peter's (by 1754).[13]

Cardinal

He was created a cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 September 1759 by Pope Clement XIII. He was granted the titulus of Santa Susanna on 19 November 1759. On 20 December 1762 he opted for the titulus of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.[14] On the same day as he was created Cardinal, Valenti was named Bishop of Rimini. He was consecrated bishop on 14 October by Pope Clement XIII himself, assisted by Cardinal Camillo Paolucci (Merlini) and Cardinal Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini [15]

Also on 24 September 1759, he was named Abbot Commendatory of the Camaldolese Abbey of St. Benedict of Savignano.[16]

Cardinal Ludovico Valenti made his solemn entry into his diocese of Rimini on 25 May 1760.[17]

As a Cardinal Ludovico Valenti was a member of the Sacred Congregations: of the Council, of the Examination of Bishops, of Regulars, of Rites, Indulgences and Relics.[18]

The Cardinal died in Rome on 18 October 1763, the Feast of S. Luca, after a long illness culminating in a wasting fever.[19] His body was buried in his titular church, S. Croce in Gerusalemme;[20] his praecordia were buried in S. Andrea delle Frate.

References

  1. ^ Moroni, p. 244.
  2. ^ Nuovo Dizionario Istorico, Va = Uz, Tomo XXI, translated from French, Remondini of Venice (1796); page 17.
  3. ^ Moroni, p. 244.
  4. ^ Notizie per l' anno 1736 (Nella Stamparia del Chracas., 1736) p. 96.
  5. ^ GCatholic, Cardinals Created by Clement XIII (1758-9). Retrieved: 2016-04-08.
  6. ^ Moroni, p. 245. Filippo Maria Renazzi (1806). Storia dell'Università degli studi di Roma: detta comunemente la sapienza, che contiene anche un saggio storico della letteratura romana, dal principio del secolo XIII sino al declinare del secolo XVIII. Vol. IV. Roma: Nella stamperia Pagliarini. pp. 68–70.
  7. ^ Notizie per l'anno 1742 (in Italian). Roma: Nella Stamparia del Chracas. 1742. pp. 92, 235.
  8. ^ Notizie per l'anno bissestile . Roma: Nella Stamparia del Chracas. 1738. p. 223.
  9. ^ Pope Benedict XIV (1775). Opus de servorum Dei beatificatione, et beatorum canonizatione. Vol. Tomus XI. Naples: Ex Typographia Johannis-Francisci Paci. p. 4.
  10. ^ Emanuele Pinto de Fonseca (1747). Relazione di quello, che si è praticato in occasione di avere ... Benedetto xiv. mandato lo stocco, ed il pileo benedetti a sua altezza eminentissima il gran maestro fra d. Emmanuele Pinto. Roma: Antonio de'Rossi. p. 5. Giovanni Bonello (2000). Histories of Malta. Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti. ISBN 978-99932-10-01-6.
  11. ^ Aloysius Guerra, ed. (1772). Pontificiarum constitutionum in bullariis magno, et Romano contentarum, et aliunde desumptarum epitome, et secundum materias dispositio opera et studio A. Guerra. Vol. Tomus Primus. Venice: Heredes Nicolai Pezzana. p. 77.
  12. ^ Angelo Pastrovicchi, Compendio Della Vita, Virtu E Miracoli Del B. Giuseppe Di Copertino (Roma 1753), p. 88.
  13. ^ Annuario pontificio: Notizie per l'anno 1755 (in Italian). Roma: Stamperia del Chracas. 1755. pp. 72, 292.
  14. ^ GCatholic, Cardinals Created by Clement XIII (1758-9). Retrieved: 2016-04-08.
  15. ^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Ludovico Cardinal Valenti Retrieved: 2016-04-08.
  16. ^ Bartolomeo Borghesi (1862). Memorie del Monstero camaldolese di S. Benedetto di Savignano. Atti e memorie - Deputazione di storia patria per le provincie di Romagna. Vol. Anno primo. Bologna: Presso la Deputazione di storia patria. pp. 1–56 at 47.
  17. ^ Francesco Gaetano Battaglini, Guid'Antonio Zanetti, Memorie istoriche di Rimino e de' suoi signori artatamente (Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe 1789), p. 148.
  18. ^ Notizie per l'anno bissestile . (in Italian). Roma: Nella Stamparia del Chracas. 1762. p. 105.
  19. ^ Moroni, p. 245.
  20. ^ Vincenzo Forcella (1876). Iscrizioni delle chiese e d'altri edificii di Roma dal secolo XI fino ai giorni nostri. Vol. VIII. Roma: Tip. delle scienze matematiche e fisiche. p. 200, no. 532.

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