The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . 384 LIVES OF THE 254 PIUS VI.—A. D. 1775. ^^_ vv lUS VT. (John Angelo Braschi) was born at Cesena,^j( a city of Komagna, December 27th, 1717; his fa-ther, Count Marcus Aurehus Braschi, belonging toone of the noblest families of the city, and hismother being the Countess Ann Teresa Bandi, anillustrious lady of that province. After early studies, under his parents eyes, youngBraschi passed to the schools of the Jesuits, wherehe soon displayed the happiest qualities. His judgment was precocious. Helearned the most difficu
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . 384 LIVES OF THE 254 PIUS VI.—A. D. 1775. ^^_ vv lUS VT. (John Angelo Braschi) was born at Cesena,^j( a city of Komagna, December 27th, 1717; his fa-ther, Count Marcus Aurehus Braschi, belonging toone of the noblest families of the city, and hismother being the Countess Ann Teresa Bandi, anillustrious lady of that province. After early studies, under his parents eyes, youngBraschi passed to the schools of the Jesuits, wherehe soon displayed the happiest qualities. His judgment was precocious. Helearned the most difficult matters with ease, and retained them in a memorywhich never lost them; for fifty years after he stiU recited fiom memoryextracts from the most celebrated Greek and Roman writers, as though hehad but just read them. He was not yet seventeen when, in 1735, he wasmade doctor of the civil and canon law: and that moment he resolved toembrace the ecclesiastical carfeer, although the last male of his line. Toperfect himself in study, he left Cesena and proceeded to Ferrara, underthe direct
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