Pietro Ottoboni
Catholic cardinal
Born on: July 2, 1667Died on: February 29, 1740
Aged: 72 years 242 days (871 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Republic of venice
Birth Sign: Cancer
Pietro Ottoboni was an Italian cardinal and grandnephew of Pope Alexander VIII, who was also born Pietro Ottoboni. He is remembered especially as a great patron of music and art.
Ottoboni was the last person to hold the curial office of cardinal-nephew, which was abolished by Alexander's successor, Pope Innocent XII, in 1692.
According to musicologist Ellen T. Harris, 18th-century biographer Michael Ranft described Ottoboni as someone who "loved pomp, prodigality, and sensual pleasure, but was in the same time kind, ready to serve, and charitable".
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