Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Select Letters of Ganganelli: Pope Clement XIV
F. L. Ganganelli was descended from an an cient and illustrious family, which had long ?ourished at St. Angelo ia' Vado, a small epis copal city in the Ecclesiastical States. His father was a physician of distinguished reputation, resident in the duchy of Urbino. The subject of the present brief memoir was born in October 1705, andhavmg lost his father in the third year of his age, was placed by his surviving parent in the Jesuits' College at Rimini, from which he was, afterwards removed to one of the monastic seminaries in his native province. Here he early conceived the design of becoming a member of one of the religious orders, and at length accomplished his purpose, on the 17th of May, 1723, by attaching himself to a monastery of Franciscan Friars. He availed himself of the opportunity which his retirement afforded him.
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