Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti
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 | January 24, 1685 |
| Died | 14 January 1764 (aged 78) Rome, Papal States |
| 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.