(50) 1. CARANDINI, Filippo (1729-1810)

Birth. September 6, 1729, Pesaro. Of a noble family from Modena. Son of Marquis Gian Lodovico Carandini and Countess Osanna Magni of Mantua. Maternal uncle of Cardinal Ercole Consalvi (1800). Related to Cardinal Antonio Maria Frosini (1823).

Education. Collegio di Pesaro, Pesaro; studied canon and civil law in Rome.

Early life. Minister of Francesco II, duke of Modena, before the Holy See, 1774. Counselor of State of Modena. Domestic prelate of His Holiness Pius VI, 1777. Lieutenent of the Vicariate of Rome. Vicegerente of Rome (1). Lieutenent of the auditor of the Apostolic Chamber. Secretary of the S.C. of the Tridentine Council, 1785.

Cardinalate. Created cardinal deacon in the consistory of January 29, 1787; received the red hat and the deaconry of S. Maria in Portico Campitelli, April 23, 1787. Prefect of the S.C. of Good Government, February 6, 1787. Received the minor orders, December 28, 1787; subdiaconate, June 6, 1789. Opted for the deaconry of S. Eustachio, September 12, 1794. Participated in the Participated in the conclave of 1799-1800, which elected Pope Pius VII. Prefect of the S.C. of the Tridentine Council, March 1800 until August 28, 1810. When the French occupied Rome in 1809, forced to seek refuge in Tolentino, and later in Modena with his family.

Death. August 28, 1810, Modena. Exposed in the Carandini Palace, Modena; the funeral, celebrated by Tiburzio Cortese, took place in the cathedral of Modena. Buried, in front of the railling at the corner of the Epistle, near where the body of S. Germiniano is venerated, next to the stairs of the chapel of the Sacrament (2).

Bibliography. Benabei, Nicola. Vita del cardinale Giovanni Morone, vescovo di Modena, e biografie dei cardinali modenesi e di casa d'Este, dei cardinali vescovi di Modena e di quelli educati in questo Collegio di San Carlo. Modena : Ditta tipografica Rossi, 1885, pp. 222-227; Re, Niccolò del. "I cardinali prefetti della Sacra Congregazione del Concilio dalle origini ad oggi (1564-1964)." Apollinaris, XXXVII (1964), p. 132; Ritzler, Remigium, and Pirminum Sefrin. Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Patavii : Typis et Sumptibus Domus Editorialis "Il Messaggero di S. Antonio" apud Basilicam S. Antonii, 1968, VI, 35, 51 and 52.

(1) This is according to Bernabei, Vita del cardinale Giovanni Morone, vescovo di Modena, e biografie dei cardinali modenesi e di casa d'Este, dei cardinali vescovi di Modena e di quelli educati in questo Collegio di San Carlo, p. 223, and to Del Re, "I cardinali prefetti della Sacra Congregazione del Concilio dalle origini ad oggi (1564-1964)", p. 132, but the latter author does not list him among the occupants of the post in his Il vicegerente del vicariato di Roma, Rome : Istituto di Studi Romani Editore, 1976.
(2) This is the inscription on the wall of the stairs: Hic . Iacent . Ossa . Philippi . Carandini . S. . R. . E. . Cardinalis. On the wall at the exit of the stairs, sculpted in marble, there is another inscription: > S. E. Philippus . Cardinalius . Mutinensis . S. . R. . E. . Cardinalis . Diaconus . Titulo . S. . Eustachii. Qui . Pisauri . Natus . Romam . Ab . Ipsa . Adolescentia . Profectus . Acri . Ingenio . Pietate . Constanti . Doctrina . Multiplici . Omnium . Hominum . In . Se . Convertit . Animos . Iuvenis . In . Partem . Reipub . Administrandae . Vocatus . Operam . Suam . Pontificibus . Summis . Probavil . Auctus . Perpetuo . Novis . Honoribus . A . Pio . VI . Ut . Ditionis . Universae . Bono . Regimini . Praesset . Unus . Extra . Ordinem . Amplissimo . Cardinalium . Collegio . Adscriptus . An. MDCCLXXXVII . A Pio . VII . In . Sanctis . Christianae . Religionis . Consilium . Difficillimis . Temporibus . Praefecti . Auctoritate . Adscitus . Est . Obiit . In . Patria . Octogenario . Major . V . Kal. Septemb. . An . MDCCCX . Victoria . Stellia . Fratria . testam . Donata . Usu . Et . Fructibus . Ex . Semisse . Et . Iosephus . Ex . Fratre . Nepos . Haeres . Ex . Asse . Monumentum . Optime . Merenti . P. P. Both inscriptions were transcribed from Benabei, Vita del cardinale Giovanni Morone, vescovo di Modena, e biografie dei cardinali modenesi e di casa d'Este, dei cardinali vescovi di Modena e di quelli educati in questo Collegio di San Carlo, pp. 226 and 227.

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