Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero d'Ormea

Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero d'Ormea (5 April 1680, Mondovì - 29 May 1745, Turin) was an Italian politician and diplomat. He was president of the Council of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1742 to 1745.

Life

Early career - from prefect to general of finances (1713-24)

Embassy to Rome and concordat with Benedict XIII (1724-30)

He was repeatedly sent to the court of pope Benedict XIII and gained the pope's recognition of Vittorio Amedeo II as King of Sardinia as well as concluding a concordat with the papacy in 1727, thus normalising Sardinia's relations with the papal states, which had been strained for the previous thirty years.

Secretary of State to the Interior (1730-42), for foreign affairs (1732-45) and Grand Chancellor

Sources
  • Bio]
  • Roberto Gaja, Il marchese d'Ormea, Milano, Bompiani, 1988
  • Nobiltà e Stato in Piemonte. I Ferrero d'Ormea, atti del convegno (Torino-Mondovì, 3-5 ottobre 2001), a cura di Andrea Merlotti, Torino, Zamorani, 2003

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