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(surnamed II Vecchio), an Italian prelate and theologian, brother of Urban VIII, was born at Florence in 1569. In 1585 he joined the Capuchins; in 1624 was appointed cardinal bishop at Sinigaglia and librarian of the Vatican at Rome. He died Sept. 11, 1646. He is the author of, Constitutiones Synodales et Decretapro Diocesi Senogallensi (Rome, 1627): — Tractatus de Antiquo Modo Eligendi in Relligione Capuccino’um (ibid. 1640): — Ordinatiqnes pro Bono Regimine Religionis Capuccinorum (ibid. eod.). See Bernardus’ a Bononih, Bibl. Capuccinorum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen., s.v. (B. P.)