Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti


Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti
Marco Benefial, Portrait of Furietti (Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo)
DioceseDiocese of Rome
Orders
Created cardinal24 September 1759
by Pope Clement XIII
RankCardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta
Personal details
Born(1685-01-24)January 24, 1685
Died14 January 1764(1764-01-14) (aged 78)
Rome, Papal States
BuriedSanti Bartolomeo ed Alessandro dei Bergamaschi
DenominationRoman Catholic
ParentsGiovanni Furietti
Caterina Terzi
Alma materUniversity of Pavia

Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti (24 January 1685 – 14 January 1764) was a Roman Catholic cardinal, an antiquarian and philologist, and a collector of antiquities whose ambitious excavations at the site of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli rewarded him with the Furietti Centaurs and other Roman sculpture.


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