Italian papal bureaucrat, bishop and cardinal
Flavio Orsini (1532 – 16 May 1581) was a papal bureaucrat, an Italian bishop, and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was son of Ferdinando Orsini, 5th duke of Gravina; and Beatrice Ferrillo, daughter and heiress of Giovanni Alfonso Ferrillo, Conte di Muro Lucano.[1]
- ^ Notizia storica nella quale brievemente s'espone l'origine ... della nobilissima famiglia Orsini sino al regnante sommo pontefice Benedetto XIII. ... Opera ricavata da' più celebri ... storici da D. A. A. S. P. (in Italian) Venezia: Bartolameo Giavarina 1724), p. ix. Crescimbene, p. 384. Martuscelli (1896), p. 263.