Domenico Silvio Passionei

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Domenico Silvio Passionei

Domenico Silvio Passionei (December 2, 1682 - July 5, 1761) was an Italian

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Cardinal

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of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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.

Born in Fossombrone

Fossombrone

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near Urbino

Urbino

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, Marche, he went to Rome

Rome

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in 1695, where he studied philosophy

Philosophy

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at the Collegio Clementino

Collegio Clementino

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(Ph.D.

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in 1701) and law

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at the university La Sapienza.

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Domenico Silvio Passionei (December 2, 1682 - July 5, 1761) was an Italian

Italy

Cardinal (Catholicism)

Roman Catholic Church

Fossombrone

Fossombrone is a town and comune in the province of Pesaro e Urbino ....
near Urbino

Urbino

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
in 1695, where he studied philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
at the Collegio Clementino

Collegio Clementino

Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
in 1701) and law

LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
at the university La Sapienza. Already in these early years he corresponded with scholars throughout Europe, including Protestants and Jansenists. In 1706, he was sent as legate

Papal legate

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to Paris

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, where he stayed for two years, before travelling through the Netherlands, where he participated as official representative of the Holy See

Holy See

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at the peace conferences of The Hague

The Hague

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(1708) and Utrecht

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(1712). Upon his return to Rome, he was made a prelate

Prelate

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, but when he was denied a nuciature

Nuncio

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, he temporarily retired from 1717 (after his father's death) to 1721 on his estate in Fossombrone.

Under the new Pope Innocent XIII

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, he finally was named Nuncio in Lucerne

Lucerne

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, Switzerland

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, and also made titulary archbishop

Archbishop

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of Ephesos. From 1730 to 1738, he was Nuncio in Vienna

Vienna

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. In 1738, he was created Cardinal Priest, and three years later, he became pro-librarian of the Vatican Library

Vatican Library

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to Cardinal Quirini

Angelo Maria Quirini

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, whom he would succeed as librarian in 1755.

Passionei was decidedly anti-Jesuit, opposing the beatification

Beatification

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of the Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine in 1754. Other than that, he was a proponent of a liberal Catholicism and considered a protector of Jansenists, and defended authors like Montesquieu or Helvétius in Index
Index Librorum Prohibitorum

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trials.

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