Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.46.90.3
The donation of Faust Vrančić to his brother Kazimir from the legacy of the noble family Draganić-Vrančić in the State archives in Rijeka
Iva Kurelac
orcid.org/0009-0007-2914-0567
; Odsjek za povijesne znanosti Zavoda za povijesne i društvene znanosti u Zagrebu, HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The purpose of this research was to analyze the unpublished donation charter of Faust Vrančić (Šibenik 1551 – Venice 1617) to his brother Kazimir, written on 6th March 1609 in Cremona, perserved in the State Archives in Rijeka. Author's intention was to examine the paleographic and diplomatic characteristics of the document, analyze its content, complete the gaps in the biography of Faust Vrančić, and finally, to publish the full transcript of the donation charter in Latin. It is established that the donation charter of Faust Vrančić is completely authentic, that it was published based on the entry from the notary book of Livio Beliselli from Cremona, and that it was delivered to Pompej Bracoleo, the official of the Šibenik municipality chancellery, on 30th April 1609. The formal analysis of the document has revealed that its legal actions consisted both from the act of the irrevocable donation as well as from the act of giving up of all the rights and actions to Kazimir. According to its formal characteristics, it is concluded that the document fits into the way the notarial deeds of that time were composed. The content analysis has confirmed that the donation charter is a private-legal document relevant for the better knowledge of the final period of the life of Faust Vrančić (after 1605), when he withdrawed from the politicaldiplomatic service of the emperor Rudolph II, turning himself entirely to the ecclesiastical career, and was ordained a Barnabite priest. The substantial lack of the facts about the so-called Barnabite period (1608-1609) of the life of Faust Vrančić was among the main reasons for conducting this research. Namely, the previous knowledge about this period of Vrančić's life was mostly based on the funeral speech given in the Šibenik cathedral on 20th January 1617 by Ivan Tomko Mrnavić. But, given the fact that Mrnavić's speech is a rather scant source concerning Vrančić's Barnabite period, since it does not reveal any chronological nor biographical data about Vrančić's life in Cremona, the knowledge about the Barnabite period had to be completed with the data from other sources. Based on the content analysis of the donation charter of Faust Vrančić, we came to the conclusion that it should be taken into the account as a relevant historical source for broadening the knowledge about the Barnabite period of his life. The content analysis of the donation
charter has revealed a number of new facts about Faust Vrančić's life of a monk in Cremona. First of all, we have established that the donation charter was composed in the presence of Faust Vrančić, in the home of the notary Livio Beliselli, in the quarter of St. Helen in Cremona. But probably the most important new biographical fact about the Barnabite period of Vrančić's life is that his ecclesiastical name was Basilius Verantius.
The charter also revealed that Vrančić lived in the church of Sts. Jacopo and Vincenzo in Cremona. Some details about Vrančić's personal contacts in Cremona are also revealed, because we assume that the witnesses mentioned in the charter (Andrea de Summo, Fabio de Roncadellis, Giovanni Battista de Stanghis), all three ecclesiastical persons, were most likely close with Faust Vrančić. Finally, we also consider the donation charter as important for the understanding of the propiretary and legal relations between the closest members of Vrančić's family, because, except for Faust's brother Kazimir, it also mentions his daughter Ružica, and the both were included in the last will (12th June 1615) of Faust Vrančić as the recipients of the testamentary bequests. This research has confirmed that the donation charter of Faust Vrančić to his brother Kazimir fully fits into the early modern notarial practice, and that it offers valuable biographical data about the Barnabite period of his life. At the end the reader can find a complete transcription of the donation charter in Latin edited according to the rules of egdotics, which is accompanied with some crucial facsimiles of this document.
Ključne riječi
Faust Vrančić; Kazimir Vrančić; Livio Beliselli; Pompej Bracoleo; donation charter; Barnabites; Cremona; Šibenik; early modern period.
Hrčak ID:
294158
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.2.2023.
Posjeta: 545 *