Paolo Emilio Rondinini (1617 – 16 September 1668) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.
[1] During the First War of Castro he endeared himself to the Barberini and their uncle Pope Urban VIII by raising his own company of cuirassiers to fight on the side of papal forces.
[2] Despite the plot by members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals to unseat Pope Urban in favour of his grandfather,[2] the Pope nonetheless made Rondinini cardinal deacon of the deaconry of S. Maria in Aquiro in the consistory of 13 July 1643.
In the same year he opted for the deaconry of San Giorgio in Velabro, and in 1656 for that of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
He died on 16 September 1668 and was buried in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (as was his grandfather) in Rome.