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    3 March 1721. He participated in the conclave of 1721 that elected Pope Innocent XIII and the conclave of 1724 that elected Pope Benedict XIII. He became...
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    A papal conclave was held from 19 to 21 June 1963 to elect a successor of John XXIII, who had died on 3 June 1963. The cardinal electors assembled in Rome...
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    A papal conclave took place from 25 to 28 October following the death of Pope Pius XII on 9 October 1958. On the eleventh ballot, the College of Cardinals...
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    1549–50 papal conclave (November 29 – February 7), convened after the death of Pope Paul III and eventually elected Cardinal Giovanni del Monte as Pope...
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    A papal conclave was held from 31 August to 3 September 1914 which elected Giacomo della Chiesa to succeed Pius X, who died on August 20, as pope. Della...
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    Governatore del Conclave in 1721. Segretario del Memoriale since 1721. Segretario of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples since 1724. Ordained...
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    The papal conclave held from 31 July to 4 August 1903 saw the election of Cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto to become pope in succession to Leo XIII,...
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    The papal conclave held from 2 to 6 February 1922 saw Cardinal Achille Ratti elected to succeed Benedict XV, who had died on 22 January 1922. It took fourteen...
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    (1686, 1719) Sebastiano Antonio Tanara (1650–1724) (1695, 1721) Francesco del Giudice (1647–1725) (1690, 1724) Fabrizio Paolucci (1651–1726) (1697, 1725)...
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    younger (1673–1740), a Cardinal since 11 September 1724, bishop of Palestrina. He died during the conclave, on 12 March 1740, of apoplexy, having suffered...
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    Orleans. But he was present at the Conclave of 1724, though he made a very late appearance on 23 April, after the Conclave had been in progress for seven...
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  • the 1774–1775 papal conclave. In the 1760s, he engaged Giovanni Battista Piranesi to enhance the structure of Rome's Santa Maria del Priorato Church and...
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    the College) or by the senior cardinal deacon participating in the papal conclave, in Latin, upon the election of a new pope of the Roman Catholic Church...
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    lascivious. He died in Venice in 1818. Gorian, Rudj (2007). Le gazzette sul conclave, 1724-1779 : analisi di una tipologia di periodici veneziani (in Italian)...
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    The 1492 papal conclave (6–11 August) was convened after the death of Pope Innocent VIII (25 July 1492). It was the first papal conclave to be held in...
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  • Two papal conclaves were held in 1503. The first conclave was held following the death of Pope Alexander VI on August 18, 1503. This conclave lasted from...
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    180-181 Francesco Cristofori, Il conclave del MCCLXX in Viterbo (Roma-Siena-Viterbo 1888). Antonio Franchi, Il conclave di Viterbo (1268-1271) e le sue...
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    Francesco Peggi Bolognese (1729–1758): pubblicate insieme col diario del conclave del 1740 (seconda ed.). Friburg im Breisgau: J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck)....
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    The 1513 papal conclave, occasioned by the death of Pope Julius II on 21 February 1513, opened on 4 March with twenty-five cardinals in attendance, out...
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    who lived only a few months. He was succeeded by John XXIII. During the conclave of November 1406, Cardinal Angelo Correr had promised, along with all the...
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    The papal conclave held from 2 to 28 September 1823 ended with the election of Annibale della Genga to succeed the death recently deceased Pius VII as...
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    The 1565–66 papal conclave (20 December – 7 January) was convened on the death of Pope Pius IV and ended in the election of Pope Pius V. Cardinal Vitellozzo...
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    conclave elected Cardinal Giulio de' Medici as Pope Clement VII to succeed Pope Adrian VI. According to conclave historian Baumgartner, the conclave was...
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    cardinal-nephews elevated at one time. The capitulation of the 1464 papal conclave limited the Pope it elected (Pope Paul II) to appointing one cardinal-nephew...
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    about until its rediscovery in 1590, supposedly just in time for a papal conclave occurring at the time. Several historians have concluded that the prophecy...
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    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...
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    Cardinals. At the next election (1724) he was himself proposed for the papal chair, and secured ten votes at the conclave that elected Benedict XIII. Benedict's...
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    July 1903, and at the end of that month the conclave convened to elect his successor. Before the conclave, Sarto had reportedly said, "rather dead than...
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    ISBN 978-88-8453-894-9. OCLC 317921279. Gorian, Rudj (2007). Le gazzette sul conclave, 1724-1779 : analisi di una tipologia di periodici veneziani (in Italian)...
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    The papal conclave held from 16 to 18 December 1352 was convened after the death of Pope Clement VI and elected as his successor Cardinal Etienne Aubert...
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