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Catholic cardinal
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Male
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Birth:
20 October 1540(Calitri, Province of Avellino, Campania, Italy)
Death:
14 February 1603(Naples, Metropolitan city of Naples, Campania, Italy)
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The details
Biography
Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540–14 February 1603) was an Italian Cardinal, from 1561. He was from Naples. His attendance at the papal conclave of 1565-6 at the age of only 25 makes him one of the youngest Cardinals ever to participate in a papal election.
He was archbishop of Conza in 1564, bishop of Albano in 1583, bishop of Frascati in 1587, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1589, bishop of Ostia in 1591, archbishop of Naples in 1596.
He was a patron of Sant'Andrea della Valle, in Rome, the mother church of the Theatine Order. The composer Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.