Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and art collector (died 1740)

Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)

Italian Catholic cardinal (1667–1740)

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…