Original scientific paper
From the Ecclesiastical History of the Commune of Rab. A Contribution to the Biography of Rab's Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti (1514 – 1567)
Zrinka Novak
orcid.org/0000-0002-9551-3778
; Department of Historical Sciences, Institute of Historical and Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The focus of the article is life and work of Vincenzo Negusanti, bishop of Rab. Vincenzo is descendent of the Negusanti nobil family who originates from Fano in Umbria (Italy). He was born in 1487. and after his studies in Padova, he obtained a title of the doctor of the both laws (civic and cannon). At the beginning of the sixteenth century Negusanti acted as an assistant and secretary of his uncle cardinal Adriano Castellesi in the Roman curia. He was bishop of Rab in a very long period, from 1514 up to his resignation 1567. He participated in the Lateran and Trent councils as a dean of bishops. He tried to renew pastoral and ecclesiastical life in his diocese according to the decrees of the council of Trent. However, in this attempts he did not succeed completely because of his absence in the diocese of Rab. He died in Italy, in his native commune of Fano in 1573. His last will, which is kept in the State Archives in Zadar, is a valuable source that witness ecclesiastical and spiritual (devotional) circumstances in contemporary Rab. Author is analysing this testament and at the end giving the full transcript.
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Publication date:
20.12.2020.
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