Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli
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Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli (Urbino
Urbino
Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482...

, 21 September 1779 – 22 February 1852) was an Italian
Italian people
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 clergyman, who was made a cardinal
Cardinal (Catholicism)
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 by pope Gregory XVI
Pope Gregory XVI
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 in the consistory
Consistory
-Antiquity:Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply 'sitting together', just as the Greek synedrion ....

of 15 April 1833.

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