The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . Simot Vouet- !Vi:M[B^?i ^00 Q URBAN Vm. 23 239. URBA]!f VIIL—a. d. I HIS pope, Maffeo Barberini, was bom at Florencein 1568, son of Antonio Barberini and Camilla Bar-badori, whose families were distinguished for theirnobility and their lofty connections. When Mafifeowas three years old he lost his father, and madehis early studies, in his own tongue, under the wisedu-ection of his mother. Camilla then sent him toEome to study philosophy, under his Uncle FrancisBarberini, apostolical the age of twenty, Ma
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . Simot Vouet- !Vi:M[B^?i ^00 Q URBAN Vm. 23 239. URBA]!f VIIL—a. d. I HIS pope, Maffeo Barberini, was bom at Florencein 1568, son of Antonio Barberini and Camilla Bar-badori, whose families were distinguished for theirnobility and their lofty connections. When Mafifeowas three years old he lost his father, and madehis early studies, in his own tongue, under the wisedu-ection of his mother. Camilla then sent him toEome to study philosophy, under his Uncle FrancisBarberini, apostolical the age of twenty, Maffeo was received as doctor at Pisa, and thenreturned to Rome. Sixtus V. named him referendary of justice. GregoryXIV. raised him to the dignity of governor of Fano, and then named himone of the seventeen apostoHc prothonotaries. In this last capacity, hedrew uj) the acts of the two marriages that were celebrated in presence ofClement A^III.—namely, that of the Catholic king, Philip III., with Margaretof Austria, and that of the archduke of Austria, Albert, with Isabella Clara-Eugenia, infanta of Spain. In 1601, Clement sent Maffeo t
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