Camillo Tarquini

Camillo Tarquini (1810 to 1874) was an Italian cardinal, Jesuit canonist and archaeologist, born at Marta near Montefiascone. Ordained priest in 1833, he took a doctorate in canon law at the Sapienza in Rome in 1835 and entered the Society of Jesus in 1837. He held the chair of canon law at the Roman College and is remembered chiefly as a canonist: his treatise on the Regium Placet or Exequatur for papal bulls appeared in 1851, and his main work, the Juris ecclesiastici publici institutiones (1862), went through many editions and was translated into French. He also wrote on the French Concordat of 1801 and on the Pauline privilege, and published archaeological studies of Etruscan inscriptions and language. Pius IX made him a cardinal on 22 December 1873.