Albizzi (Or Albici), Francesco, an advocate of Cesena, Italy, who, on account of the ill-usage he had received from a client whose cause he lost, returned to Rome. Here he became closely connected with the Jesuits; and, through their interest, became secretary to certain prelates, and afterwards to the pope himself. He drew up the. celebrated bull of Urban VIII (q.v.) against the Augustinus of Jansenius, in the famous question of the Five Propositions. He died in 1684, leaving a Treatise on the Jurisdiction of the Cardinals in the Titular Church of Rome (Rome, 1668).
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