Editing Pope Clement XIII (section)

==Biography==
===Early life===
[[File:CarloRezzonicoSenior.jpg|thumb|left|150px|upright|Portrait engraving of Carlo Rezzonico ({{circa|1737&nbsp;–&nbsp;44}})]]
Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico was born on 7 March 1693 to a recently [[Venetian nobility|ennobled family of Venice]],{{sfn|Kelly|1987|p=298}} the second of two children of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the [[Grand Canal (Venice)|Grand Canal]] (now [[Ca' Rezzonico]]) and finished its construction. His parents were Giovanni Battista della Torre di Rezzonico and Vittoria [[Barbarigo family|Barbarigo]].

Carlo received a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] education in [[Bologna]] and later studied at the [[University of Padua]] where he obtained his doctorate in [[canon law]] and civil law. From there, he travelled to [[Rome]] where he attended the [[Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles]].

In 1716 Rezzonico became the Referendary of the [[Apostolic Signatura]] and in 1721 was appointed Governor of [[Fano]].<ref name="Catholic">{{catholic|title=Pope Clement XIII|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04032a.htm|last=Smith|first=Sydney|volume=4|year=1908|access-date=23 June 2017|inline=1}}</ref> He was ordained to the priesthood on 23 December 1731 in Rome. [[Pope Clement XII]] appointed him to the cardinalate in 1737 as the Cardinal-Deacon of [[San Nicola in Carcere]]. He also filled various important posts in the [[Roman Curia]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

Rezzonico was chosen as [[Bishop of Padua]] in 1743 and he received [[episcopal consecration]] in Rome by [[Pope Benedict XIV]] himself,<ref name="EB1911"/> in the presence of [[Giuseppe Accoramboni]] and Cardinal Antonio Saverio Gentili as [[co-consecrator]]s.<ref>{{cite book | author = Angelo Sodano | title = Verso le origini, una genealogia episcopale | language = it | page = 30 | year = 2008 | publisher = [[Libreria Editrice Vaticana]] | isbn = 9788820981129| author-link = Angelo Sodano }}, quoting ''Diario ordinario di Roma'', n. 4002, 23 March 1973, pp. 6–14.</ref> Rezzonico visited his diocese on frequent occasions and reformed the way that the diocese ran, paying attention to the social needs of the diocese. He was the first to do this in five decades.<ref>''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'' (6 July 2008)</ref> He later opted to become the Cardinal-Priest of [[Santa Maria in Aracoeli]] in 1747 and later still to become the Cardinal-Priest of [[San Marco, Rome|San Marco]] in 1755.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1737.htm#Rezzonico|title=Rezzonico, senior, Carlo (1693–1769)|publisher=Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church|date=2015|access-date=6 February 2015|archive-date=19 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719044956/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1737.htm#Rezzonico|url-status=dead}}</ref>