Alfonso Gesualdo

Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540 – 14 February 1603) was an Italian Cardinal starting in 1561.

His attendance at the papal conclave of 1565-1566 at the age of only 25 makes him one of the youngest Cardinals ever to participate in a papal election.

He was a patron of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, the mother church of the Theatine Order.

[2] The composer Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.

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