Guido Bentivoglio

Guido Bentivoglio (1579 - September 7, 1644), was an Italian cardinal, statesman and historian.

He was born at Ferrara. After studying at Padua, he went to reside at Rome, where he was received with great favour by Pope Clement VIII, who made him his private chamberlain. Clement's successor, Pope Paul V, created him archbishop of Rhodes in 1607, and appointed him as nuncio to Flanders and afterwards to France; on his return to Rome in 1621 he was created cardinal and entrusted by King Louis XIII with the management of French affairs at the papal court. He became the intimate friend of Pope Urban VIII, who appointed him to the suburban see of 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.