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Alessandro Vittrici

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Most Reverend

Alessandro Vittrici
Bishop Emeritus of Alatri
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Alatri
In office1632–1648
PredecessorFrancesco Campanari
SuccessorMichelangelo Brancavalerio
Orders
Consecration24 October 1632
by Laudivio Zacchia
Personal details
Died5 October 1650
Alatri, Italy

Alessandro Vittrici (or Vittrice; died 5 October 1650) was a Roman art collector and Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Alatri (1632–1648) and as governor of Rome from 1647.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Alessandro was the son of Gerolamo Vittrici (died March 1612), sottoguardaroba to every pope since Gregory XIII. Gerolamo commissioned the Deposition of Christ from Caravaggio for his uncle's chapel (the Capella della Pietà) in Santa Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova),[4] a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.[5]

Vittrice is also known to have been, in 1620, the owner of Caravaggio's The Fortune Teller, which he gifted to Pope Innocent X.[3]

On 20 September 1632, Alessandro Vittrici was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Alatri.[1][2] On 24 October 1632, he was consecrated bishop by Laudivio Zacchia, Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli.[2] He served as Bishop of Alatri until his resignation in 1648.[2] He died on 5 October 1650.[2]

Episcopal succession

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While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator:[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 74. (in Latin)
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Bishop Alessandro Vittrici" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 22, 2017
  3. ^ a b Sickel, Lothar (July 2001). "Remarks on the Patronage of Caravaggio's 'Entombment of Christ'". The Burlington Magazine. 143 (1180): 426–429. JSTOR 889098.
  4. ^ Langdon, Helen (2000). Caravaggio: A Life. Westview Press. ISBN 9780813337944.
  5. ^ Hibbard, Howard (1985). Caravaggio. Oxford: Westview Press. pp. 171–179. ISBN 9780064301282.
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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Alatri
1632–1648
Succeeded by