CARDINAL GIACOMO DE ANGELIS

  
   

ST. URBAIN, Ferdinand de: Lorraine, 1701, Bronze, 41 mm
Obv: Bust (r) of Giacomo de Angelis, cardinal wearing cap and bishop’s cape  IAC. T. S. MARIAE. DE. ARA. COELI. PRESB. CAR. DE. ANGELIS.
Rev: Bust (l) with long wig and wearing a jobot and wide drapery   MARCH. IO. PHIL. EQV. ET. PRIOR. S. STEPH. PATRVO. REST.   Below:  MDCCI
Signed: S.V.
Ref: Börner 290, 1401; Wurzbach 275; Morbio 4051; Forrer V p.312, #86

Giacomo de Angelis (Jacques de St Marie, Cardinal Sant’Angelo) (1610-1695) was born in the archdiocese Pisa in 1610 of a noble family. He attended the University of Pisa where he received a doctorate in utroque iure, both canon and civil law. In his early life he served under Pope Innocent X and Pope Alexander VII. He was elected archbishop of Urbino in 1660 and created cardinal in 1686. He died in 1695 and was buried in Barga, near Garfagnana, archdiocese of Pisa. His tomb is in S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. Jean Philippe, shown on the reverse, nephew of Giacomo de Angelis, was Prior of Saint Etienne (Stephen)
 
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