Marzio Ginetti

Marzio Ginetti (7 February 1586 - 1 March 1671) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and Cardinal Vicar of Rome. He was the uncle of (also later cardinal) Giovanni Francesco Ginetti.

Ginetti was sent to Rome at a very young age to be educated and was appointed chamberlain to Pope Paul V where he became an acquaintance of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, who would later be elected as Pope Urban VIII. He was made a Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signatura.

On 19 January 1626 he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Urban VIII and installed as Cardinal-Priest at Santa Francesca Romana in 1627, Sant'Angelo in Pescheria in 1634.

In 1639, Carlo Cesare Malvasia visited Rome to work and received assistance and protection from Ginetti and Bernardino Spada^[1].

In 1644 he was appointed Cardinal-Priest at Sant'Eustachio and participated in the papal conclave of 1644^[2] which elected Pope Innocent X. He participated in the conclave of 1655. He was appointed Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals and held the position during the conclaves of 1667 and 1669-1670.

He died 1671 and was buried at the Sant'Andrea della Valle^[3].

References

1. ^ Malvasia's Life of the Caracci by Carlo Cesare Malvasia (autobiography), edited by Anne Summerscale (Penn State Press, 2000)
2. ^ Catholic Hierarchy: Marzio Ginetti
3. ^ S. Miranda: Marzio Ginetti

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Giovanni Garzia Millini	Cardinal Vicar 1629 – 1671	Succeeded by Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
Preceded by Alessandro Cesarini	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Eustachio 1644	Succeeded by Carlo de' Medici
Preceded by Bernardino Spada	Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli 1646 – 1652	Succeeded by Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta
Preceded by Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano 1653 – 1663	Succeeded by Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta
Preceded by Giulio Cesare Sacchetti	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina 1663 – 1666	Succeeded by Francesco Maria Brancaccio
Preceded by Francesco Barberini	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina 1666 – 1671	Succeeded by Francesco Maria Brancaccio