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February 28, 1740
Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (born 1667)
Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)
Pietro Ottoboni was an Italian cardinal and grandnephew of Pope Alexander VIII, who was also born Pietro Ottoboni. He is remembered especially as a great patron of music and art. Ottoboni was the last person to hold the curial office of cardinal-nephew, which was abolished by Alexander's successor, Pope Innocent XII, in 1692. Ottoboni '"loved pomp, prodigality, and sensual pleasure, but was in the same time kind, ready to serve, and charitable."
February 28
February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 306 days remain until the end of the year.