BENTIVOGLIO, GUIDO (1579-1644), Italian cardinal, statesman and historian, was born at Ferrara in 1579. He was private chamberlain to Clement VIII. ; and Paul V. created him archbishop of Rhodes (1607), and nuncio first to Flanders and then to France. He was created cardinal in 1621. A close friend of Pope Urban VIII., he was marked out as Urban's successor, but on Sept. 7 1644, he died suddenly at the opening of the conclave. Bentivoglio's principal works are : Della Guerra di Fian dria (best edition, Cologne, translated into English by Henry, earl of Monmouth (London, 1654) ; Lettere diplomatiche di Guido Bentivoglio (Brussels, 1631, frequently reprinted, best edition by L. Scarabelli, 2 vols., Turin, 1852). The complete edi tion of his works was published at Venice in 1668 in quarto.