Vincenzo Costaguti
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Costaguti was born in 1612 in Rome to the Costaguti; Genoese nobility. He was the son of Prospero Costaguti (Marquis of Sipicciano and of Rocca Elvezia) and his first wife Paola Costa.[1] The Costaguti family were responsible for commissioning the Palazzo Costaguti in rione Sant'Angelo, Rome which includes artistic works by Domenichino, Lanfranco and Badalocchio. His younger half-brother, Giambattista Costaguti, also later became a cardinal.
At the age of 20 he went into the service of the Church and was appointed a protonotary apostolic participantium and later was appointed as a regent of the Apostolic Chancery under Vice-Chancellor Cardinal Francesco Barberini. Thereafter he was appointed Commissary General of Umbria and Marca before obtaining a doctorate utroque iure in 1638 which qualified him to be appointed referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signatura of Justice and of Grace.
For a brief period in 1643 he was appointed Vice-legate of Ferrara.
