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GIOVANNI BATTISTA RINUCCINI (1592-1653)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA See also:

RINUCCINI (1592-1653)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Fermo, was See also:born in See also:Rome on the 15th of See also:September 1592, being the son of a senator . He studied at several See also:Italian See also:universities, became See also:chamberlain to See also:Pope See also:Gregory XV., and in 1625 was made archbishop of Fermo . His participation in Irish politics, which is his See also:chief See also:title to fame, began during the later stages of the See also:Civil See also:War when See also:Ireland was the See also:scene of universal disorder . In 1645 Pope See also:Innocent X. despatched him to that See also:country as papal See also:nuncio; he landed at Kenmare with arms and See also:money in See also:October 1645, and took up his See also:residence at See also:Kilkenny . Before this See also:time the See also:Roman Catholics had banded themselves together for See also:defence . Called the Confederate Catholics, they had set up a provisional See also:government, and whenthe nuncio reached Kilkenny they were engaged in negotiating for See also:peace with the See also:lord See also:lieutenant, the See also:marquess, afterwards See also:duke, of See also:Ormonde . See also:Rinuccini took See also:part in the proceedings, but as his demands were ignored he refused to recognize the peace which was concluded in See also:March 1646, and gaining' the support of the Irish See also:general, See also:Owen See also:Roe O'See also:Neill, he used all his See also:influence, both ecclesiastical and See also:political, to prevent its See also:acceptance by others . To a large extent he succeeded.: See also:Meeting at See also:Waterford, the See also:clergy condemned the treaty and several towns took up the same attitude . The nuncio's most pliant helper was now See also:Edward See also:Somerset, See also:earl of Glamorgan, after-wards marquess of See also:Worcester, who had been sent to Ireland by See also:Charles I., and who had entered into communication with Rinuccini when the latter first arrived in that country . Glamorgan See also:bound himself to carry out all the wishes of the nuncio, who intended that he should supplant Ormonde . In September 1646 Rinuccini took over the conduct of affairs.' He imprisoned his opponents on the See also:council and tried to arrange for an attack on See also:Dublin . But there was no See also:harmony among his subordinates, his military plans failed ' and soon all parties were tacitly ignoring him .

Leaving Kilkenny he stayed for some time in See also:

Galway, and in See also:February 1649 he See also:left Ireland . After visiting Rome he returned to Fermo in 1650 and died on the 5th of See also:December 1653• See G . Aiazzi, La Nunziatura in Irlanda (See also:Florence 1844), See also:English See also:translation as The See also:Embassy in Ireland, by A.' See also:Hutton (Dublin, 1893) ; and S . R . See also:Gardiner, See also:History of the See also:Great Civil War, vols. iii. and iv . (1905) .

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