Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti | |
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![]() Marco Benefial, Portrait of Furietti (Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo) | |
Diocese | Diocese of Rome |
Orders | |
Created cardinal | 24 September 1759 by Pope Clement XIII |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 14 January 1764 Rome, Papal States | (aged 78)
Buried | Santi Bartolomeo ed Alessandro dei Bergamaschi |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Parents | Giovanni Furietti Caterina Terzi |
Alma mater | University 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.