Salviati, Alamanno

Salviati, Alamanno, an Italian cardinal, was born at Florence, April 20, 1668. He was prothonotary of the Holy See, afterwards vice-legate of Avignon, and in 1717 was made legate of Urbino, which charge he held till he was created cardinal in 1730. He died at Rome, Feb. 24, 1733. This prelate was the author of a dedicatory epistle addressed to the grand-duke Jean Gaston, and which is at the beginning of the Vocabolario of the Academy of Crusca.