Albani, Annibale

Albani, Annibale an Italian prelate, brother of Giovanni Francesco, was born at Urbino, Aug. 15, 1682, and died about 1750. He was cardinal of St. Clement chamberlain of the Church at Rome; bishop of Sabina, and arch-priest of the Basilica of St. Peter of the Vatican. We are indebted to him for a collection of the works of his uncle, pope Clement XI (Rome, 1724, 2 vols. fol.; Frankf. 1729): — and Monologium Grcecorum (Urbino, 1727), in Greek. and Latin. He also edited the Roman Pontifical (Brussels, 1739, 3 vols. 8vo). See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen., s.v.