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Silvio Antoniano |
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Antoniano, Silvio, 1540-1603 |
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1540 |
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1603 |
Cardinal Silvio Antoniano, was born at Rome in 1540. Through the influence and patronage of Pope Pius IV. he became Professor of the Belles Lettres in the Collegio Romano, and subsequently rose to be the head of the college, and a cardinal. He died in 1603. [Rev. W. A. Shoults, B.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 382 (1907)
Silvio Antoniani (31 December 1540, Rome – 16 August 1603, Rome) was a musician, canon lawyer, writer on education, priest and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who spent most of his career in the Roman Curia.
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