Original scientific paper

Marulić's Distich on St. Bartholomew

Ivo Babić

Abstract

Browsing through the pages of Daniele Farlati’s monumental work Illyricum sacrum, in the Garagnin Fanfogna Library at Trogir the author has found a piece of paper, in 18th century handwriting, reading:
In Bartholomeum Averoldum Archiepiscopum Spalatensem
Distichon
Aspice dissimiles quam sint duo Bartholomei:
Hic pellem Christo sustulit, ille dedit.
Auctore Marco Marulo, ut fertur.
The acidly intoned text alludes to bishop’s heavenly patron, the apostle Bartholomew. The bishop Bartholomew, as far as we know, fully deserved the authorts contempt. Farlati, referring to documents and traditions, reproached him for having done little worth mentioning in the twenty-three years of his pastoral rule in Split (1479-1503), his only merit being the building of the fortifications around the archiepiscopal castle (Sućurac). Namely, this Renaissance prelate, bored with life in the provincial Split, was almost constantly absent from the town, where rule of the unpopular archbishop was marked by disorders, moral corruption and declining faith. Among other things, he had to pay the Pope the sum of 1500 ducats in order to procure a bishop’s seat in Italy for his illegitimate son.

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Hrčak ID:

9750

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9750

Publication date:

22.4.1996.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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