Lorenzo Corsini was born in Florence in 1652 as the son of Bartolomeo Corsini, Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Elisabetta Strozzi, the sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo. Both of his parents belonged to the old Florentine nobility. He was a relative of Saint Andrea Corsini.
Corsini studied at the Collegio Romano in Rome that the Society of Jesus ran and also studied at the University of Pisa where he was to earn a doctorate both civil law and canon law. He served as an aristocratic lawyer and a financial manager under preceding pontiffs dating back to the pontificate of Pope Innocent XI.
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