Pius VII, POPE (BARNABA CHIARAMONTI), b. at Cesena in the Pontifical States, August 14, 1740; elected at Venice March 14, 1800; d. August 20, 1823. His father was Count Scipione Chiaramonti, and his mother, of the noble house of Ghini, was a lady of rare piety who in 1763 entered a convent of Carmelites at Fano.