the next three bishops, rinaldo d'este (1650–1660), girolamo codebò (1661), giovanni agostino marliani (1662–1674) worked with determination, though intermittently, to bring together sufficient property (some of it by the suppression of churches and transfer of assets) to provide operating capital for a new seminary, and even during the "sede vacante" following the death of bishop marliani the chapter demonstrated a will to reopen the seminary. in 1674, the seminary was opened on the top floor of the episcopal palace. when augusto bellincini was appointed bishop, he immediately began his own efforts to raise additional funds. at the end of the seventeenth century, there were thirty seminarians.