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~Birth: November 29, 1463, Rome. Of an illustrious and ancient family. Second of the four children of Filippo Della Valle and Girolama Margani.// ~Education: (No information found).// ~Sacred orders: Received the subdiaconate. Scriptor apostolic. Canon of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, 1503-1517.// ~Episcopate: Elected bishop of Crotone, December 2, 1496. Consecrated (no information found). Abbot commendatario of the Benedictine monastery of SS. Trinitą, diocese of Mileto. Regent of the Apostolic Chancery, 1503-1505. Transferred to the see of Mileto, February 23, 1508; resigned the government of the diocese on November 26, 1523 in favor of his nephew Quinzio Rustici. Participated in the V Lateran Counicl, 1512. Apostolic secretary during the pontificate of Pope Julius II.// ~Cardinalate: Created cardinal priest in the consistory of July 1, 1517; received the red hat and the title of S. Agnese in Agone, July 6, 1517. Administrator of the see of Cajazzo, December 2, 1517 to December 10, 1518. Administrator of the see of Gallipoli, February 18, 1518 until October 17, 1524. Administrator of the see of Nicastro, May 5 to 17, 1518. Administrator of the see of Valva e Sulmona, October 26, 1519 until June 18, 1521. Archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian basilica, 1520; he opened and closed the Holy Door in the Jubilar Year of 1525. Administrator of the see of Umbriatico, March 20, 1521 to September 10, 1522. Participated in the conclave of 1521-1522. Named bishop of Crotone again September 4, 1522; occupied the see until November 14, 1524. Participated in the conclave of 1523. Legate in Naples. Protector of the Order of Friars Minor of St. Francis, 1523. Opted for the title of S. Prisca, March 27, 1525. He took part in the conflicts between Pope Clement VII and the Colonna; and between the same pope and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Abbot commendatario of the monastery of Ss. Vincenzo ed Anastasio a Tre Fontane, Rome. Governor of Rome during the absence of Pope Clement VII in 1529. Abbot commendatario of the monastery of S. Severo in Montenuovo, diocese of Senigaglia, February 9, 1531. Opted for the order of cardinal bishops and the suburbicarian see of Albano, retaining in commendam the title of S Prisca until his death, April 21, 1533. Opted for the suburbicarian see of Palestrina, December 12, 1533. He ordered construction of Palazzo Della Valle, the church of S. Andrea della Valle and Teatro Della Valle.// ~Death: August 3, 1534 (1), Rome. Buried in the tomb of his ancestors in the church of S. Maria in Aracoli, Rome (2).// ~Bibliography: Cardella, Lorenzo. Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1793, IV, 20-21; Chacón, Alfonso. Vitę, et res gestę Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesię vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max. 2 volumes. Romae : Typis Vaticanis, 1630, II, col. 1412-1413; Eubel, Conradus and Gulik, Guglielmus van. Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volumen II (1431-1503). Münich : Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1914; reprint, Padua : Il Messagero di S. Antonio, 1960, p. 139; Eubel, Conradus and Gulik, Guglielmus van. Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volumen II (1431-1503). Münich : Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1914; reprint, Padua : Il Messagero di S. Antonio, 1960, p. 139; Eubel, Conradus and Gulik, Guglielmus van. Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volumen III (1503-1592). Münich : Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1935; reprint, Padua : Il Messagero di S. Antonio, 1960, pp. 15, 55, 57, 59, 69, 145, 201, 244, 256 323 and 326; Weber, Christoph and Becker, Michael. Genealogien zur Papstgeschichte. 6 v. Stuttgart : Anton Hiersemann, 1999-2002. (Päpste und Papsttum, Bd. 29, 1-6), I, 353.// ~Links: Brief biographical data, in English.// (1) This is according to his epitaph, transcribed in note 2; Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi, III, 15, says that he died on August 4, 1534. This is the text of his epitaph, taken from the addition of Andrea Vittorelli to Chacón, Vitę, et res gestę Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm, II, cols. 1412-1423: ANDREĘ. DE. VALLE. CARD. EPISCOPI. PRĘNESTINI. OSSA. HIC. SITA. SVNT. VIXIT. ANN. LXX. MENS. VIII. DIES. V. III. NON. SEXTILIS. ESSE. INTER. NOS. DESIIT. Si tibi par ausis suum matura dedisset. Nacta erat amissum Maria Roma decus.// ~Tomado del Website 'The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church': <http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1517-ii.htm> Biographical Dictionary / Pope Leo X (1513-1521) / Consistory of July 1, 1517 (V).