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He was the son of Giulio Cesare Borromeo and Margherita Trivulzio, members of the Milanese aristocracy.
If CardinalBorromeo shared the current excessive credulity in witchcraft and magic, he was in every other way far in advance of his time as a friend of the people and a promoter of intellectual culture and social refinement based on a practical religious life.
Federigo Borromeo (Milan, 1870); Von Reumont in Kirchenler., II, sqq.; BouQuillon in Catholic University Bulletin (Washington, 1895), I, 566-572.
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