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BORROMEO, CARLO (15381584)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 274 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BORROMEO, CARLO (15381584) , saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, son of Ghiberto
Borromeo
 , count of Arona, and
Margarita
  de' Medici, was born at the castle of Arona on Lago
Maggiore
  on the 2nd of October 1538. When he was about twelve years old, Giulio Cesare
Borromeo
  resigned to him an abbacy, the revenue of which he applied wholly in charity to the poor. He studied the civil and canon law at Pavia. In 1554 his father died, and, although he had an elder brother, Count Federigo, he was requested by the family to take the management of their domestic affairs. After a time, however, he resumed his studies, and in 1559 he took his
doctor
 's degree. In 156o his uncle, Cardinal Angelo de'Medici, was raised to the pontificate as Pius IV. Borromeo was made prothonotary, entrusted with both the public and the privy seal of the ecclesiastical state, and created cardinal with the administration of Romagna and the
March
  of Ancona, and the supervision of the Franciscans, the Carmelites and the knights of Malta. He was thus at the age of twenty-two practically the leading statesman of the papal court. Soon after he was raised to the archbishopric of
Milan
 . In compliance with the
pope
 's desire, he lived in
great
  splendour; yet his own temperance and humility were never brought into question. He established an
academy
  of learned persons, and published their memoirs as the Nudes Vaticanae. About the same time he also founded and endowed a college at Pavia, which he dedicated to Justina, virgin and
martyr
 . On the death of his elder brother Federigo, he was advised. to quit


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