How to Pronounce Domenico Bernini
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Aug 03, 1657 Rome, Lazio, Italy Died on 03 Nov 1723 (aged 66)
Italian 17th-century historian
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About Domenico Bernini
- Domenico Bernini was the son of the artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Born on 3 August 1657, Domenico was the last of the eleven children born to the famed seventeenth-century artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his wife Caterina Tezio.
- A scholar and author, Domenico Bernini published several works related to the history of the Catholic Church.
- Published in four volumes, History of the Heresies perhaps is the best known of his writings.
- Domenico's biography of his father, Vita del Cavalier Gio.
- Lorenzo Bernini, appeared in Rome in 1713 and is now available in its first English translation and critical edition.
- It is one of the most important, full-length primary sources for the life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
- Domenico Bernini died in 1723. Although he had a very brief career as a Jesuit novice (1671–73), Domenico was never ordained a priest; he married sometime after 1686 and had three children.
- He is frequently confused in older scholarship with his eldest brother, Monsignor Pietro Filippo who became a prelate and canon of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
- He devoted himself to the study of ecclesiastical history and wrote an extensive history of Catholic heresies.
