Guido Luca Ferrero

Guido Luca Ferrero (18 May 1537 – 16 May 1585) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

[1][6] He resigned the government of the Diocese of Vercelli sometime before 17 October 1572, and was given in exchange the Monastery of S. Silvestro di Nonantola, near Modena (1573–1582).

[1] He became Prior of Santa Maria di Pellionex in 1572, and provost of San Martino degli Umiliati, Vercelli in 1575.

[1] He participated in the papal conclave of 1585 that elected Pope Sixtus V.[1][8] Cardinal Guido owned the Villa Ruffinella in Frascati from 1578 to 1585.

On 10 May 1585 he donated the villa (reserving lifetime tenancy) to a college of scholars which he had founded in Torino.