Tommaso Bernetti, an Italian cardinal and statesman, born in Fermo, Dec. 29, 1779, died there, March 21, 1852. In 1808 he followed Cardinal Brancadoro to France, and in 1810 to his exile at Rheims, whither Brancadoro was s.'nt as one of the 13 "black cardinals" who refused to assist at the marriage of Napoleon and Maria Louisa. In 1814 he returned to Rome with Pius VII., and was appointed assessor of the committee of war, intrusted with the reorganization of the military service. Afterward he was sent as ambassador to St. Petersburg (1826), and as legate to Ravenna and Bologna. In 1827 he became a cardinal, and in 1828 was made secretary of state. After the accession of Gregory XVI. he undertook to create a militia which might obviate the necessity of employing Austrian troops. This led to remonstrances from the Austrian government, and to his being deprived of his office in 1836. He was then made vice chancellor of the Roman church. When Pius IX. left Rome in 1848 Bernetti joined him at Ga-eta, and from that place went to Fermo.