CAPRARA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA Ital ian cardinal, was born on May 29, 1733, at Bologna of the family of the counts of Montecuculi. Having acted as nuncio at Cologne, Lucerne and Vienna, he received a cardinal's hat in 1792, and in 1801, at the special request of Bonaparte, was deputed by the Vatican as legate in France to execute the terms of the Concordat. When he was formally received on April 9, 1802, he read a Latin declaration promising to respect the Gallican liberties, and this he was afterwards alleged to have signed. He was no match for Napoleon and did not enforce the conditions he had made before instituting the "constitutional" bishops of Orleans and Vannes. He gave way on important points, and Napoleon secured his appointment as archbishop of Milan in 1802. In 2803, however, Caprara protested against the organic articles added to the Con cordat by the French Government. He was the channel of com munication between Pius VII. and Napoleon in the arrangement for the latter's coronation. He died in Paris on June 21, 1810. In 18o2 he published Concordat et recueil des belles et bre f s de N.S. Pie VII. sur les affaires de l'Eglise en France.