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PALLAVICINO (or PALLAVICINI), PIETRO See also:SFORZA (16o7-1667) , See also:Italian See also:cardinal and historian, son of the See also:Marquis Alessandro Pallavicino of See also:Parma, was See also:born at See also:Rome in 1607. Having taken See also:holy orders in 163o, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1638, he successively taught See also:philosophy and See also:theology in the Collegium Romanum; as See also:professor of theology he was a member of the See also:congregation appointed by See also:Innocent X. to investigate the Jansenist See also:heresy, In 1659 he was made a cardinal by See also:Alexander VII. He died at Rome on the 5th of See also:June 1667. Pallavicino is chiefly known by his See also:history of the See also:council of See also:Trent, writtenin Italian, and published at Rome in two See also:folio volumes in 1656-1657 (znd ed., considerably modified, in 1666). In this he continued the task begun by Terenzio See also:Alciati, who had been commissioned by See also:Urban VIII. to correct and supersede the very damaging See also:work of See also:Sarpi on the same subject. Alciati and Pallavicino had See also:access to many important See also:sources from the use of which Sarpi had been precluded; the contending parties, however, are far from agreed as to the completeness of the refutation. The work was translated into Latin by a Jesuit named Giattinus (See also:Antwerp, 167o-1673). There is a See also:good edition of the See also:original by Zaccharia (6 vols., See also:Faenza, 1792-1799). It was translated into See also:German by Klitsche in 1835-1837. He also wrote a See also:life of Alexander VII. and a tragedy (Ermenegildo, 1644), &c. His collected Opere were published in Rome in 1844-1848.

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