Ferdinando Nuzzi (1645 – 1717) was a Catholic cardinal who served as officer of the Papal States and as Bishop of Orvieto from 1716 to his death.

[2] Based in Rome, he took up a career in the administration of the Papal States, without standing out at the beginning also because his family was not noble.

From 1688 for ten years he worked at the Apostolic Camera (the central board of finance in the Papal States).

[3] In 1702 he published a booklet titled Discorso intorno alla coltivazione e popolazione della Campagna di Roma (discourse about the cultivations and the population in the Agro Romano), in which he cautiously supported the theory of Mercantilism, suggesting the abolition of privileges, the use of crop rotation and even the splitting up of estates.

[2] He was consecrated bishop the following 13 June by the Cardinal Secretary of State Fabrizio Paolucci in the Roman church of San Carlo ai Catinari.