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| | Biography Pope Alexander VIII The Papal Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Alexander VIII was born at Venice, April 22, 1610, of Mark Ottoboni, a patrician and chancellor of Venice, and of Victoria Tornielli, a lady not inferior in rank. |
 | | The Ottoboni family, which had anciently flourished at Padua, though others give Dalmatia and Lepanto as its origin, was transferred to Venice, where it was reckoned among the citizens of the ducal chancery till 1246, when it was ennobled and embraced several distinguished men. |
 | | Aldobrandino Ottoboni had the title of patrician togato; and on his death, in 1258, the republic gave him a splendid funeral, and a noble tomb in the Church of Saint Reparata. |
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