Antonio Maria Salviati

Portrait of Anonio Maria Salviate

Antonio Maria Salviati (January 21, 1537 – April 26, 1602) was a Florentine Roman Catholic cardinal.

Salviati was born in Florence, son of Lorenzo Salviati and Costanza Conti, the nephew of cardinals Bernardo Salviati and Giovanni Salviati. In 1561 he was appointed as bishop of Saint-Papoul in France, and later was apostolic nuncio in the same country. Pope Gregory XIII created him as cardinal on December 12, 1583.

He rebuilt the Hospital of San Giacomo in Augusta, also said "degli Incurabili" in Rome and then he gifted it to the city.

He died in Rome in 1602.

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