Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Eminence |
Girolamo Gastaldi | |
Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Anastasia Archbishop of Benevento | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Consecration: | 12 May 1680 |
Consecrated By: | Girolamo Boncompagni |
Birth Date: | 1616 |
Birth Place: | Taggia, Italy |
Death Date: | 8 Apr 1685 (age 69) |
Girolamo Gastaldi (1616–1685) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.[1]
On 12 May 1680, was consecrated bishop by Girolamo Boncompagni, Archbishop of Bologna, with Carlo Molza, Bishop of Modena, and Augusto Bellincini, Bishop of Reggio Emilia, serving as co-consecrators.[2]
He is known for his treatise on the political and legal measures taken to control the plague, Tractatus de Avertenda et Profliganda Peste, Politico-Legalis, published in 1656.[3]