Early Life
Rinuccini was born at Rome in 1592. He was the son of a Florentine patrician, his mother, Virginia di Pier Antonio Bandini was a sister of Ottavio Cardinal Bandini. Educated by the Jesuits at Rome and in courses of law at the Universities of Bologna and Perugia, in due course he was ordained a priest, having at the age of twenty-two obtained his doctor's degree from the University of Pisa. He was accepted into the Accademia della Crusca. Returning to serve his uncle at Rome, though a fever permanently damaged his health, he won distinction as an advocate in the ecclesiastical courts, was named a camariere by Pope Gregory XV and in 1625 became Archbishop of Fermo. In 1631 he gently refused an offer to be made archbishop of Florence.
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