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CARLO See also: saint and See also: cardinal of the See also: Roman Catholic See also: Church, son of Ghiberto
See also: Borromeo, count of See also: Arona, and See also: Margarita de' See also: Medici, was See also: born at the See also: castle of Arona on Lago Maggiore on the 2nd of See also: October 1538
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When he was about twelve years old, Giulio Cesare Borromeo resigned to him an abbacy, the revenue of which he applied wholly in charity to the poor
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He studied the See also: civil and See also: canon See also: law at See also: Pavia
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In 1554 his See also: father died, and, although he had an elder See also: brother, Count Federigo, he was requested by the See also: family to take the management of their domestic affairs
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After a See also: time, however, he resumed his studies, and in 1559 he took his See also: doctor's degree
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In 156o his See also: uncle, Cardinal Angelo de'Medici, was raised to the pontificate as See also: Pius IV
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Borromeo was made prothonotary, entrusted with both the public and the privy See also: seal of the ecclesiastical See also: state, and created cardinal with the administration of Romagna and the See also: March of
See also: Ancona, and the supervision of the Franciscans, the See also: Carmelites and the knights of See also: Malta
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He was thus at the age of twenty-two practically the leading statesman of the papal See also: court
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Soon after he was raised to the archbishopric of Milan
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In compliance with the See also: pope's See also: desire, he lived in See also: great splendour; yet his own See also: temperance and humility were never brought into question
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He established an See also: academy of learned persons, and published their See also: memoirs as the Nudes Vaticanae
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About the same time he also founded and endowed a See also: college at Pavia, which he dedicated to Justina, virgin and See also: martyr
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