Angelo Maria Quirini
Angelo Maria Quirini or Querini (1680 - 1755) was a scientist and Italian Cardinal. Born with Venice, it was made Benedictine in 1695 and was ordered in 1702. From 1710 to 1714, he travelled in England, France, Germany, and Holland, and corresponded with the most eminent scientists of his time, such as Bernard de Montfaucon, Isaac Newton, or Voltaire. On its return in Italy, it was made Abbé monastery Bénédictin of Rome, in responsibility of compile annals of the order.
In 1723, it became Archevêque of Corfou, and Benoît XIII created it Cardinal In pectore in 1726. It was installed as cardinal and archbishop of Brescia only one year later. In 1730, it took the head of the library of the the Vatican, before setting out again in Suisse and Bavaria, where he became member of the Academies of Science of Berlin, Vienna, and Russia.
In conflict with Benoit XIII, it was returned in its Diocèse where it died.
He wrote on the history of the Church, Corfou and Brescia, and published in five volumes the correspondence of the cardinal Reginald Pole. He founded in 1745 with Brescia, the Biblioteca Queriniana which exists always nowadays.
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