How to Pronounce Giovanni Delfino (cardinal)
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Apr 22, 1617 Venice, Venetian Province, Italy Died on 19 Jul 1699 (aged 82)
Italian playwright
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- Giovanni Dolfin (or Delfino) (Venice, 22 April 1617 - Udine, 20 July 1699) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and playwright. The great-grandson of the other cardinal Giovanni Dolfin, he was the first senator of the Venetian republic, then, after abandoning civil and religious life, after various ecclesiastical duties he was consecrated titular bishop of Tagaste.
- In 1656 Girolamo Gradenigo wanted him as coadjutor in the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
- He succeeded him, as patriarch, two years later. On the request of the Republic of Venice, on 8 March 1667 Pope Alexander VII appointed him cardinal of San Salvatore in Lauro and then of the Saints Vito, Modesto and Crescenzia.
- He was abbot commendatore of the abbey of Rosazzo from 1668 until his death. He participated in the conclave of 1667, that of 1669-1670, that of 1676, that of 1689 and finally that of 1691; indeed during the latter his name re-entered among those of the papabili but his election was blocked by the Spaniards who did not see favorably a Venetian on the papal throne.While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Alvise Sagredo, Patriarch of Venice (1678).
