Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo was an Italian cardinal and politician, who led the popular anti-Jacobin Sanfedismo movement.
13 Facts About Fabrizio Ruffo
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Fabrizio Ruffo's father, Litterio Ruffo, was a Calabrian aristocrat, holder of the title of duke of Baranello, while his mother, Giustiniana, was of the Roman family of Colonna.
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Fabrizio Ruffo was placed by the pope among the chierici di camera, the clerks who formed the papal civil and financial service.
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Fabrizio Ruffo was later promoted to treasurer-general, a post which carried with it the ministry of war.
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Fabrizio Ruffo went to Naples, where he was named administrator of the royal domain of Caserta, and received the abbey of Santa Sofia, Benevento in commendam.
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Fabrizio Ruffo announced Pope Leo XII's election in the papal conclave of 1823.
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Fabrizio Ruffo was chosen to head a royalist movement in Calabria, where his family, though impoverished by debt, exercised large feudal powers.
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Fabrizio Ruffo appoint the member of the of State juncta that processed the rebels for the crime of Lese-majeste.
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Fabrizio Ruffo appears to have lost favor with the king by showing a tendency to spare the republicans.
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Fabrizio Ruffo resigned the vicar-generalship, which he had been granted on 25 January 1800, to the prince of Cassero, and during the second French occupation and the reigns of Joseph Bonaparte and Joachim Murat he lived quietly in Naples.
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On 2 April 1810 Fabrizio Ruffo was present at his marriage with the duchess Marie Louise of Austria.
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In May 1814, Fabrizio Ruffo returned to Rome where the population and the College of Cardinals received him with indifference, so that he decided to move to Naples and to establish himself there.
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Fabrizio Ruffo died in Naples on 13 December 1827 and was buried in his familiar chapel, consecrated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, within the San Domenico Maggiore Basilica, not distant from the Aquinos' chapel.