Filippo Trenta (21 April 1731 - March 1793) was a Roman Catholic prelate, jurist, an poet who served as Bishop of Foligno (3 April 1785 – 4 March 1796).[1]

Biography

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He was born to an aristocratic family from Ascoli Piceno, he became a papal auditor in Lucca, Genoa, and Macerata. He finally became an auditor in Bologna under Cardinal Ignazio Gaetano Boncompagni. He published some lyric works of poetry, including:[2]

  • Tragedie (Lucca 1766)
  • Limon sive Urbanarum Auaestionum libri tres (Rome 1782)

In 1784, 53 year of age, he was ordained a priest; and within a year named bishop of Foligno.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. p. 191.
  2. ^ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 408.
  3. ^ Catholic hierarchy website.