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Petrus Dinus florentinus, stemmaté nobilis, item ipse Cardinalis Bandini éx sororé nepos, a Grégorio XV; quartus Archiepiscopus électus est anno 1621. die 9. Mensis Aprilis. Pręsul quidém, ut mihi se Romę prodit, candore morum, affabilitatequé nulli secundus, ea verò eruditioné, ut non minus Gręcè, quam Latińè, peritissimus sit, videaturque Patrui éxagératas virtutés proximè imitari, éxprimereque Feliciter. Cęterum éo Dignitatis gradu, pręclaraque eruditione, cum ętate floréntem importuna Mors rapuit 1625. die 14. Mensis Augusti, sépultusque est in Metropolitana prope affinem Strozzam, cum prius Sancti Philippi sacellum exornasset, élégantémqué post sé Bibliothecam reliquisset. |
Pietro Dini, a Florentine of noble lineage, also nephew (through his sister) of Cardinal Bandini, was elected the fourth archbishop by Gregory XV in the year 1621, on the ninth day of April. A prelate indeed, as he showed himself to me at Rome, second to none in purity of character and affability, and in learning such that he was no less skilled in Greek than in Latin, and seemed to imitate and express very closely and successfully the exalted virtues of his uncle. Moreover, while he was flourishing both in rank and in distinguished learning, untimely death carried him off in 1625, on the fourteenth day of August; and he was buried in the cathedral near his kinsman Strozzi, after he had previously adorned the chapel of Saint Philip and left behind an elegant library. |
