Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta
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Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta (or Palotta) (1594-1668) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholicism).
He was a papal nuncio at the end of the 1620s, becoming titular archbishop of Tessalonica in 1628. He became a Cardinal in 1629[1].
He was Camerlengo in 1647 for a year. He became bishop of Albano in 1663 and bishop of Frascati in 1666.
He employed the exiled English poet Richard Crashaw as secretary in 1648/9. Cardinal Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta was his uncle.
