Ruffo, Fabrizio
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▪ Italian cardinal and politicianborn Sept. 16, 1744, San Lucido, Calabria, Kingdom of Naplesdied Dec. 13, 1827, NaplesRoman Catholic cardinal and politician who was royal vicar of the Neapolitan kingdom (1799) and led a royalist-popular counterrevolution against the French under Napoleon.The son of Litterio Ruffo, duke of Baranello, Ruffo was placed by Pope Pius VI among the chierici di camera—the clerks who formed the papal civil and financial service. He was later promoted to be treasurer general, a post that carried with it the ministry of war. In 1791 he was removed from the treasurership but was created cardinal on September 29 though he was not in orders. He never became a priest.Ruffo went to Naples, and when in December 1798 the French troops advanced on Naples, he accompanied the royal family to Palermo. He was chosen to head a royalist movement in Calabria, where his family exercised large feudal powers. He was named vicar-general on Jan. 25, 1799. On February 8, he landed at La Cortona with a small following and began to raise the so-called “Army of the Faith” in association with Fra Diavolo (Diavolo, Fra).Ruffo had no difficulty in upsetting the republican government established by the French and by June had advanced to Naples. But he lost favour with King Ferdinand IV by showing a tendency to spare the republicans. He resigned his vicar-generalship, and during the second French conquest and the reigns of Joseph Bonaparte and Joachim Murat he lived quietly in Naples. During the revolutionary troubles of 1822 he was consulted by the King and was even in office for a very short time as a “loyalist” minister.
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