Italian cardinal. Enjoyed an illustrious ecclesiastical career: Congregation of the Tridentine Council; auditor, nunciature of the Kingdom of Sardinia; charge d’affaires in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany; internuncio and nuncio Kingdom of Bavaria; prefect of the Economy of the Congr. of Propaganda Fide and of the Reverend Chamber of Despoilments; commissioned with the erection and organization of the Latin American Seminary; Prefect - Tribunal of the Signature of Justice; Pro-datary of His Holiness; Prefect - Congr. of Ceremonies; Dean, College of Cardinals.
 
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed, one page, 26 October 1876. Friendly letter to a nobleman. Merits further research.