Francesco Landi

Francesco Landi (9 July 1682 - 11 February 1757) studied in Rome at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and the Sapienza University of Rome, where he graduated in utroque jure. Became aide study of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Papal conclave, 1721 Imperiali. Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma sent him as his ambassador in Paris at the Duke of Orleans, Philippe II, regent of France on behalf of the then still underage Louis XV of France. Back in Rome, became legal secretary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in 1733. In 1736 he became secretary of the "Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the regular" and consultant of the Holy Office.

He was ordained a priest on September 8, 1741 and the 18th of the same month he was appointed archbishop of Benevento and consecrated by Pope Benedict XIV. Often attended their dioceses and bother to restore and beautify the Cathedral of Benevento.

With the consistory of September 9, 1743 Pope Benedict XIV appointed him cardinal with the title of Cardinal Priest of San Onofrio, who left two years later to that of San Giovanni a Porta Latina. The January 17, 1752 he left the Bishop's chair of Benevento to return to Rome. Here was Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1754 to 1755, when he became Prefect of the "Congregation over the revision of the books of the Eastern Church". Promoted the cause of beatification of the Venerable Father John Leonardi, founder of the Congregation of Clerks Regular of the Mother of God.^[1]

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