Annibale di Ceccano

Annibale Gaetani di Ceccano [also spelled: Annibale da Ceccano, Annibale de Ceccano, Annibal Ceccano, Annibal Caetani di Ceccano, Annibal de Ceccano, Annibal de Tusculum, Annibal Gaetani, Ambald., Hannibaldus de Ceccano, Hannibaldus Tusculanus] (c. 1282 – 1350) was an Italian Cardinal. [From 1327. [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/consistories-xiv.htm] ] His palace, the Livrée Ceccano at Avignon, begun in about 1335/1340, still survives [Structurae|id=s0014612|title=Livrée Ceccano] ; it is now a public library.

He was Archbishop of Naples from 1326 to 1328 and undertook diplomatic missions, for example setting up the 1343 truce between England and France. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33545] , [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33535 ] ] He was Bishop of Frascati from 1332 to 1350. [ [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/sub-sees.htm The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Suburbicarian Dioceses and Cardinal Patriarchs of Oriental Rite ] ]

He is celebrated for the luxury of a feast he gave in 1343 for Pope Clement VI, an eye-witness account of which has survived. [ [http://hypo.ge.ch/www/cliotexte//html/reforme.causes.html] fr icon]

References

*Marc Dykmans, "Le cardinal Annibal de Ceccano (vers 1282-1350). Étude biographique et testament du 17 juin 1348", in Bulletin de l'institut historique belge de Rome, 43, 1973, p. 145-344,

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