The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . INNOCENT X. 73 240. IlflfOCENT X.—A. D. 1644. NXOCENT X. (John Baptist Pampliili) was bornat Kome, on the 7th of March, 1572, of a verynoble family, originally of Gubbio. Placed in the Roman college, the resort of theyoung Koman nobility, he applied himself to allthe studies that could enhance the advantages ofhis birth. At twenty he was received as doctor,and soon after made consistorial advocate andauditor of the Rota, when his uncle, Jerome Pam-pliili, Avho had occupied that honorable magistracy, was created cardinal. John
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . INNOCENT X. 73 240. IlflfOCENT X.—A. D. 1644. NXOCENT X. (John Baptist Pampliili) was bornat Kome, on the 7th of March, 1572, of a verynoble family, originally of Gubbio. Placed in the Roman college, the resort of theyoung Koman nobility, he applied himself to allthe studies that could enhance the advantages ofhis birth. At twenty he was received as doctor,and soon after made consistorial advocate andauditor of the Rota, when his uncle, Jerome Pam-pliili, Avho had occupied that honorable magistracy, was created cardinal. John Baptist filled the post during twenty-five years, and drew up withadmirable learning more than seven hundred and fifty decisions, which theprinces his heirs carefully preserve in their library. Gregory XV., aware of his talents for business, sent him as nuncio tothe court of Naples. Urban YIII. recalled him to accompany his nephew,Francis Barberini, whom he had accredited to France and Spain. In re-ward of his labors, John Baptist was promoted to the dignity of patriarchof Antioch, and made nuncio apostolic,
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