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In the consistory of 1896 he was elevated to Cardinal Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo.

In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.